"A single platform offering multiple providers across both big CAD softwares is a future-dream turned into today's reality. Plexscape's secret sauce was to undo Google's sauce and re-do things so they could line up in the real-life, curved, bumpy world of an engineer's CAD! Correcting for all this to make the images seem like a flat map was the secret sauce behind Google Earth and Google Maps. It was not easy! Aerial or satellite photography always creates distortion, due to variations in the Earth's surface, the varied distance from the camera sensor, and even the slightest tilt in the angle of that sensor. The success of that goal is Plex-Earth 5!Īs both a civil engineer and a software engineer I knew how powerful it could be if such photos could be incorporated into his design environment, and so I set out to make that happen. When Google Earth first gave "normal people" access to satellite images it kept me (Lambros Kaliakatsos - Plex-Earth CEO) awake at night! Google Earth has its limitations though, so we've worked tirelessly to find and bring you ALL of the very best of the world's imagery. The future is already here - and still coming! These images are aerial, not satellite, are usually just a few weeks old, and are presented in the pin-sharp clarity of just 5.8 cm - 7.5 cm per pixel!Įveryone knows and loves Google Maps and it remains a favorite for stakeholders. Nearmapįor urban areas of the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Nearmap are hard to beat. A planned and pre-published refresh schedule makes Hexagon a great choice when you need to be absolutely sure your view really is up to date. Hexagon offer impressively high resolutions imagery across the US, that goes down to as little as 15cm per pixel. You could pay for a corporate 'SecureWatch' subscription, for access to their most recent, high-resolution imagery, useful for architectural design - or you can just access it via your Plex-Earth subscription! HexagonĪs BricsCAD is part of Hexagon, we're pleased to tell you that Hexagon is one of the heavyweight geospatial solution providers. They are one of the biggest names in satellite imagery, with 300,000 square kilometers refreshed DAILY. The name Maxar may seem familiar? That's because you've often seen its copyright notice on Google Maps, as Maxar provides a lot of Google Map's photos. That can be really useful, maybe even critical for some projects. They also offer an amazing historical database, making it easy to scroll back through time to see how your project area has changed. Mention Airbus and the public think of passenger aircraft, but they are also famous for their Defense and Space - Intelligence division, offering some of the best satellite imagery available. Plex-Earth's choice of providers allows you to pick the images you use for different scenarios, such as using the most recent images for a quick look, the highest resolution for detailed planning and perhaps the most attractive images in a PDF brochure, to win over stakeholders! Plex-Earth offers these providers: Airbus That means you can cover a very long or wide area, whilst zooming, without any loss of resolution. Choice Is Importantīecause no single provider is perfect for everything, Plex-Earth brings you a huge selection of high-quality, premium imager providers, all in one platform.Ī single subscription offers unlimited views of any of the providers' photos.Ī Business Edition subscription also offers automatic stitching together of multiple images (mosaics).
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