Agisoft Metashape vs Trimble Inpho

Agisoft Metashape processes digital images into 3D spatial data for GIS, cultural heritage documentation, visual effects, and indirect measurement. It works with aerial, close-range, and satellite imagery, including automatic camera calibration and multi-camera projects. Professional Edition can create and edit terrain and surface models, georeferenced orthomosaics, and EPSG-based outputs. Its surveying functions include aerial LiDAR point attributes, laser scan registration, ground control points, targets, and scale bars. It also handles RGB, NIR, thermal, multispectral, and satellite imagery, and can calculate user-defined indices such as NDVI. Professional Edition adds Python scripting, Java bindings, distributed calculations on a local network, and a cloud processing interface. Standard and Professional installers are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. A 30-day full-function trial is available; demo mode blocks saving and exporting. Standard Edition costs $179, paid once, and Professional Edition costs $3,499, paid once. Regular licenses are not time-limited and include 12 months of email technical support and free updates through version 2.x.x.

Trimble Inpho is a Windows desktop aerial photogrammetry suite for producing dense point clouds, true orthophotos, orthomosaics, and 3D meshes. It accepts aerial imagery from single-camera or multi-camera systems with low or high overlap and can combine image and lidar data. Workflows cover city modeling, rural mapping, and topographic mapping for projects of any size. Buyers can select one module or the full suite, spanning aerial triangulation through final deliverables. MATCH-AT handles aerial triangulation and camera calibration; MATCH-3DX and MATCH-T generate dense point clouds for high- and low-overlap imagery. OrthoMaster and OrthoVista support orthophoto and orthomosaic generation, while DTMaster Stereo and SCOP++ provide point-cloud editing, interpolation, filtering, and analysis. Interactive and automatic quality tools assess imagery and results and create a project report. High-performance engines and distributed processing tools support production scaling. Pricing is paid and available on request. Licensed customers can request the latest version; demo mode has output restrictions.