07 Smart Tools
AVAG includes a set of specialized tools designed to speed up common workflows on construction and survey sites. They’re accessible from the left sidebar and work alongside your existing layers and measurements.
Smart Elevation Points
Section titled “Smart Elevation Points”Smart Elevation Points let you place a single point on the map and instantly read the elevation from all active layers simultaneously, no need to check each layer separately.
How it works:
Turn on all the layers you want to compare, then place a point using the point tool. The point detail panel on the right shows the elevation value for every active layer at that location, color-coded by layer. This makes it fast to see how terrain has changed across multiple survey dates at any given spot.
Points can be copied and pasted directly on the map, making it easy to replicate measurement locations across different areas. Create a folder in the Measurements panel to organize your points, then export or share the entire folder with colleagues in one step.
Export formats: DXF, GeoJSON, Shapefile, TXT.
360° Tour
Section titled “360° Tour”The 360° Tou lets you navigate a linked ground-level panoramic tour directly from the map. Access it by clicking 360 Tour in the left sidebar.
The panel displays your uploaded 360° Tour layers, each showing the number of photos loaded in the current map view. Each photo is represented as a red dot on the 2D map, positioned according to its GPS coordinates.
Navigating the tour:
Click any red dot on the 2D map to open the panoramic view in a second window. The PANO window shows the 360° image captured at that location – you can look around in any direction. Use the navigation arrows within the PANO view to move between adjacent positions along the tour route.
For an even richer experience, use the multi-window feature to open a third window in 3D view. This displays the point cloud at the corresponding location, giving you a three-way context: the 2D aerial map, the ground-level 360° photo, and the 3D point cloud – all synchronized to the same position. Window sizes can be adjusted to suit your workflow.
Smart Inspection Tools
Section titled “Smart Inspection Tools”Smart Inspection Tools allow you to import field photos directly into the map, placed automatically according to their GPS coordinates. Access them via the Photos tab in the left sidebar.
Supported photo types:
- 360° panoramic photos from a drone – Most drones can capture these. Photos are placed on the map and open in a full panoramic viewer when clicked.
- High-res grid photos – Captured by drones with high-resolution grid camera modes. Placed on the map as icons and viewable directly from the map.
- Phone photos – Import photos taken on a mobile phone. As long as GPS was enabled when the photo was taken, they’ll be placed on the map automatically.
How to import:
Click Import in the top navigation bar and select Photos from the dropdown. You can also import 360 pano photos and Multiresolution imagery from the same menu. Photos are organized into folders in the Photos panel and can be grouped by type, location, date, or any other structure that suits your workflow.
Photo icons appear on the map at their GPS coordinates. Clicking an icon opens the photo directly in the map view. Photos are organized and shared through folders – share a folder with colleagues to give them instant access to all field documentation from a specific area or inspection date.
MapClean
Section titled “MapClean”MapClean is a tool for cleaning unwanted objects from your DSM, for example, removing vehicles, machinery, temporary structures, or stockpiles that were present during a flight but shouldn’t be included in terrain calculations.
How it works:
Open a two-window view with the 2D map in one window and the 3D point cloud in another. Start by drawing a lineacross the area you want to clean and click Generate to produce a baseline terrain profile. This gives you a reference for what the terrain looked like before cleaning.
Switch to the MapClean tool in the left sidebar and draw a polygon around the objects you want to remove. AVAG will prompt you with a “Confirm area cleaning” dialog, click Confirm to proceed.
AVAG generates a new triangulated surface within the polygon that interpolates the terrain underneath the removed objects. The cleaned area is highlighted in yellow on both the 2D and 3D views. To verify the result, draw a new line across the same area and generate a new terrain profile, and the profile chart will now show the cleaned surface without the objects.
All subsequent calculations like volume calculations, terrain profiles, and cut/fill maps are performed on the new cleaned digital model, not the original. This ensures your analysis reflects the true terrain rather than temporary objects that happened to be in the flight area.