What SwathMap does today
Everything on this page is in the app now, except the last list, which is planned and isn't ready yet. No dates on that list: things move to "Included today" when they ship, and the changelog says when.
Upload
Included todayStraight from the SD card, in the browser, with nothing to install.
Photos or a whole folder, from the browser
Drop in the flight's photos or its folder. The upload runs in the background while the SwathMap page stays open, and each map's card shows its progress.
Up to 50 fields at once
Upload a full day of flights. They queue for your processing lane and start in turn.
A few lost photos won't sink the map
If a handful of photos fail to upload, the map still finishes, with up to 2% of the photos missing.
Several fields in one upload
Flew three fields on one battery set? Fields that are far apart in one upload are split, processed side by side and delivered together.
Edges-only maps
When you only need the boundary, map a strip along the field's edge, reaching 50, 100 or 200 ft either side of the boundary. Use the field as flown, a saved boundary, or a boundary file (KML, KMZ, shapefile or GeoJSON). SwathMap picks the edge photos before uploading, so there's less to send and less to process. Same price as any map.
Maps filed by customer
Give each map a name and assign it to a customer.
Processing in the cloud
No workstation to buy or keep up. A full map typically takes 4.4 minutes of processing for every 100 photos.
One priority processing lane
Your first map goes ahead of every customer's extra maps; more run at once when there's spare capacity. Add lanes if your crews map all day.
Full detail, set by how you fly
Maps are made at the detail your photos carry, up to 0.8 in per pixel. Fly lower for more detail.
Bad frames left out
Photos tilted away from straight down are filtered out before they can smear the map.
RTK positions used
If your drone writes RTK-corrected positions into its photos, SwathMap uses them as recorded.
A quality check on every map
Each map is checked for holes before it's delivered, and a step that fails is retried automatically.
The map
Included todayOpen it in the browser, look closer, and take it with you.
Smooth zoom to full detail
The finished map opens over a satellite basemap and zooms smoothly from the whole farm down to the crop rows.
Vegetation layers from an ordinary photo map
Build VARI, GLI, ExG, TGI and green-cover layers from any map in a few minutes, with point values and area statistics.
Multispectral maps from the DJI Mavic 3M
NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, LCI and green cover, plus a false-color overlay on the photo map. Included in the plan.
Download the map
Take the finished map as a GeoTIFF that GIS and farm software can open.
Measure
Measure distances right on the map.
Field tools
Included todayMark up the field the way your drone reads it. Shapes are planning aids, not a survey: check obstacles in the field before you fly.
Boundary with live acres
Click the corners and watch the acres add up. Drag a corner to adjust it.
Obstacles, as polygons or circles
Tree islands and buildings as polygons; poles, pivot points and single trees as circles.
No-spray zones
Buffers along creeks, wells and neighbors' crops, kept separate from obstacles because controllers treat them differently.
Notes for the crew
Drop a note where it matters: "wet spot, spray last".
Undo, redo and keyboard shortcuts
Every edit can be taken back, and the drawing tools each have a one-key shortcut.
Saved boundaries
Save a boundary to the customer and use it again, for example to drive an edges-only map of the same field.
Zones and prescription maps
Split a field into 2 to 7 zones from a vegetation layer, set a rate for each, leave out obstacles and no-spray zones, and export the result as a shapefile or KMZ.
Exports
Included todayA brand is listed only after its file has loaded on a real controller. We don't guarantee a file will load on every controller or app version.
DJI Agras boundary
A shapefile for the remote controller's microSD card. It loads and flies on a real Agras. No-spray zones and notes stay on the map: Agras doesn't import no-spray areas.
EAVision boundary
The field boundary as a KMZ, imported through EAVision's portal. Tested on a real EAVision drone. Keep one field per file, with no holes in the boundary: EAVision flies holes as erratic paths.
Ceres boundary
The field boundary as a KMZ, imported at Applicator View, which sends it to the drone. Tested on a real Ceres drone. Keep one field per file, with no holes in the boundary.
Shapefile and KMZ for everything else
Boundaries and zones as a shapefile zip or a Google Earth KMZ, for GIS, farm software or your records.
A boundary that crosses itself is caught
If an outline folds over itself, the export says so and waits for the fix instead of handing you a file a controller would reject.
Your account and your data
Included todayOne plan, and plain rules about what's kept.
Add capacity yourself
Add 1 TB storage packs or extra processing lanes from the plan page, and see lanes in use, maps in progress and storage used at a glance.
Your photos are deleted after 72 hours
Original photos are kept while the map processes and deleted 72 hours after it's finished. The map is what you keep, so keep your own copy of the SD card if you need the raw photos.
One copy of each map
We keep one copy of your maps. Download anything you can't afford to lose.
Leaving is simple
Cancel any time; your access runs to the end of the term you paid for. Your maps stay downloadable for 30 days after that, then they're deleted.
Not yet
Not yetPlanned, not ready. When one ships, it moves up this page and into the changelog. Need one of these for your operation? Tell us.
Click a field to outline it
Click inside a field and SwathMap draws its outline, snapped to where the crop stops.
A field library
Each customer's fields in one place, with their saved boundaries.
Boundary files for XAG and Hylio
Added one brand at a time, each after its file loads on a real controller.
Prescription files for DJI Agras
Zones and rates written the way an Agras reads them.
Checks before export, brand by brand
Each controller's own rules run before the download, so a problem shows up at the desk instead of in the field.
Import a boundary into the drawing tools
Start the drawing from a boundary file you already have. Today a boundary file can drive an edges-only map.
Export all your maps at once
One download for everything in your account.
An email when your map is ready
Today the map's card shows when it's done.
A link to share a map with your grower
A view-only link, no account needed.
A winter pause
Keep your maps through the off-season with processing turned off.
Send fields straight to a Ceres drone
No download and no import step.
Plan the mapping flight from a boundary
Draw or import the boundary, get the flight.
Maps from more than 2,400 photos
Today one map takes up to 2,400 photos; split a bigger block into two maps.
More drones and cameras, tested
SwathMap is tested on DJI's 20 MP mapping drones and the Mavic 3M. Photos from other drones should work too, and we'll list them as we test them. Tell us what you fly.
Map your next field before you spray it.
Create an account and try the drawing tools on a sample map, then subscribe and upload your own flight. A 500-photo flight typically takes about 22 minutes to process. Questions first? Ask, and you'll get an answer from a person on the SwathMap team.