Daily briefing

DroneDeploy Ground Pro shows reality-capture platforms expanding beyond the aircraft

DroneDeploy announced general availability of Ground Pro on 22 September following its acquisition by Procore. The premium layer turns captures from phones, tablets and 360 cameras into measurable 3D records and connects those records to construction workflows.

Drone software vendors increasingly compete on the continuity of the site record, not only aerial processing. Ground and aerial capture can become complementary inputs to the same project history.

For an existing drone-mapping team, compare where aerial orthomosaics remain the fastest source of site context and where close-range mobile capture provides information that cannot be collected safely or accurately from above.