Agisoft Metashape is a stand-alone software product that performs photogrammetric processing of digital images (aerial and close-range photography, satellite imagery) and generates 3D spatial data to be used in GIS applications, cultural heritage documentation, and visual effects production as well as for indirect measurements of objects of various scales. The technology also allows to work with laser scans and to combine data from LiDAR and camera in the same project.

The software allows to process images from RGB, thermal or multispectral cameras, including multicamera systems, as well as structured terrestrial laser scans and unstructured aerial laser scans into the spatial information in the form of point clouds, textured polygonal models, georeferenced true orthomosaics and DSMs/DTMs. Further post-processing enables to eliminate shadows and texture artifacts from the models, calculate vegetation indices and extract information for farming equipment action maps, automatically classify point clouds, etc. Metashape is capable of processing of 50 000+ photos across a local cluster, thanks to distributed processing functionality. Alternatively, the project can be sent to the cloud to minimize hardware investment, with all the processing options being still available. Wisely implemented digital photogrammetry technique enforced with computer vision methods results in smart automated processing system that, on the one hand, can be managed by a new-comer in the field of photogrammetry, yet, on the other hand, has a lot to offer to a specialist who can benefit from advanced features like stereoscopic mode and have complete control over the results accuracy, with detailed report being generated at the end of processing.

System requirements

Minimal configuration

• Windows 7 SP 1 or later (64 bit), Windows Server 2008 R2 or later (64 bit), macOS High Sierra or later, Debian/Ubuntu with GLIBC 2.19+ (64 bit)
• Intel Core 2 Duo processor or equivalent
• 8 GB of RAM

Recommended configuration

• Windows 7 SP 1 or later (64 bit), Windows Server 2008 R2 or later (64 bit), macOS Mojave or later, Debian/Ubuntu with GLIBC 2.19+ (64 bit)
• Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 processor
• Discrete NVIDIA or AMD GPU (4+ GB VRAM)
• 32 GB of RAM

The number of photos that can be processed by Metashape depends on the available RAM and

reconstruction parameters used. Assuming that a single photo resolution is of the order of 10 MPix, 4 GB

RAM is sufficient to make a model based on 30 to 50 photos. 16 GB RAM will allow to process up to

300-500 photographs.