Fly the site. Design the roof that is actually there.
Upload one drone flight and Powerlily reconstructs the property as a current orthophoto and a measured 3D surface. Apply both to the same project, lay out the final system, and carry that site truth into the proposal and permit workflow.
Included with Powerlily Pro · GPS-tagged photos or DJI video + SRT
The final design starts with the real site.
Remote imagery is excellent for the first conversation. A drone survey brings the post-sale design back to what is on the roof today, without moving the work into another platform.
Current
Capture new roofs, additions, trees and obstructions as they exist now—not when an imagery provider last flew the area.
Measured
Use centimetre-scale imagery and elevation to resolve roof planes, ridges, pitch and site geometry.
Connected
Apply the survey inside the existing project and keep design, production, proposal and permit work together.
One site visit. One connected workflow.
The field team captures the property. Powerlily handles the reconstruction and returns it to the designer in the project they already use.
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Step 1 Fly Capture overlapping GPS-tagged photos, or record a smooth DJI orbit with telemetry enabled.
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Step 2 Upload Drop the flight folder, loose originals, zip, or matching video and SRT pair into the browser.
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Step 3 Reconstruct Powerlily builds the orthophoto and 3D surface in the cloud and emails you when they are ready.
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Step 4 Design Apply the result to the project and design on the current roof in the full Powerlily tool.
See the property clearly. Measure it in 3D.
The orthophoto is not a screenshot from the flight. Hundreds of overlapping views are aligned into one top-down image. The surface model carries the height beneath it, so the picture and the roof geometry stay registered while you design.
- A current aerial image becomes the design canvas
- Roof planes, pitch, ridges and obstructions resolve from measured elevation
- Imagery and surface data stay aligned with each other
- The original flight remains attached to the project for reprocessing
- No desktop photogrammetry software or processing workstation to manage
Sell quickly. True up before install.
Start the estimate with Google, Nearmap or another available remote source. After the site visit, apply the drone reconstruction to the same Powerlily project for final layout and documentation. Sales and operations do not have to redraw the job in separate design systems.
- Use remote imagery for fast preliminary layouts and homeowner conversations
- Move to current onsite data before committing the final roof layout
- Keep the customer, equipment, pricing and project history in one record
- Carry the verified design into production modeling, proposals and plan sets
- Reduce geometry-related surprises and avoid unnecessary roof measurement climbs
Preliminary speed. Final-site confidence.
Remote and drone-based design are not competing workflows in Powerlily. They are two levels of site certainty inside the same project.
| Feature | Drone site survey | Remote imagery |
|---|---|---|
| Best stage | Final design and verification | Early estimate and sales |
| Capture date | Your site-visit date | Imagery-provider date |
| Image source | Your own ~2 cm orthophoto | Google, Nearmap and other providers |
| Elevation source | Your own ~3 cm surface | Available DSM or LiDAR coverage |
| Works inside Powerlily Design | ||
| Flows into proposals and plan sets |
Approximate output resolution depends on flight altitude, camera quality, motion blur, overlap and scene conditions. Absolute placement remains limited by the drone's GPS accuracy.
No proprietary aircraft. No field-processing box.
Powerlily accepts original GPS-tagged photos from a camera drone. DJI operators can also upload a video with the matching external SRT telemetry file, and Powerlily extracts and prepares the usable frames automatically.
- Upload a whole flight folder instead of selecting hundreds of files by hand
- Photos are checked for GPS before processing begins
- Video and SRT basenames are matched before upload
- Large files upload directly to cloud storage with per-file retry
- Track processing progress in the project and receive an email when it is ready