Aerial image processing · decentralized compute

Photogrammetry & drone mapping without expensive cloud VMs

HiveCloud is your control plane for photogrammetry and drone mapping: upload aerial imagery once, choose a pipeline, and we distribute jobs across a global decentralized compute network. Run OpenDroneMap processing software for orthophotos, digital surface models, and textured meshes, or COLMAP for structure-from-motion and dense point clouds on GPU — at a fraction of traditional cloud prices. OpenMVS meshing is on the roadmap.

OpenDroneMap processing software Available in Beta

COLMAP Available in Beta

OpenMVS Coming soon

Pay for actual compute used, not idle server hours
Featuring OpenDroneMap processing software and COLMAP GPU reconstruction in Beta; OpenMVS coming soon
One upload, one dashboard, many providers bidding for your job

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How your photogrammetry job travels through the hive

No single datacenter owns the whole pipeline.

Step 1

You upload

Aerial photos, scans, or archives go straight to secure EU storage from your browser.

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HiveCloud

Orchestrate

We package your project, match hardware requirements, and publish work to the open compute market.

Quest accepted

Step 3

Network runs it

Independent nodes compete for your job — featuring OpenDroneMap processing software and COLMAP GPU dense reconstruction in Beta.

5 nodes joined

Step 4

You collect loot

Orthophotos, point clouds, meshes, logs — delivered as archives ready to download.

Job complete!

Fraction of the cost

Traditional clouds charge for 24/7 VMs you barely use. HiveCloud taps spare capacity on the network — often an order of magnitude cheaper for bursty photogrammetry jobs.

Decentralized compute

No single vendor runs your workload. Aerial image processing fans out to geographically diverse nodes with transparent pricing and automatic failover.

Built for photogrammetry

Featuring OpenDroneMap processing software in Beta for orthophotos, point clouds, and meshes, plus COLMAP GPU sparse and dense reconstruction. OpenMVS meshing coming soon.

Aerial image processing pipelines

Featuring OpenDroneMap processing software

HiveCloud provides remote access to unaltered OpenDroneMap software on decentralized compute — orthophotos, digital surface models, dense point clouds, and textured meshes — so you skip provisioning and babysitting GPU instances.

COLMAP Beta

Structure-from-motion and dense multi-view stereo with COLMAP on Nosana GPU nodes — sparse models and dense fused.ply point clouds from the same upload-and-go workflow.

OpenMVS Coming soon

Textured mesh generation with OpenMVS will be a separate pipeline — decoupled from COLMAP so each workload can run on the best hardware.

Traditional cloud vs HiveCloud

Legacy cloud

Reserve a large VM → pay hourly → manage scaling → hope the region has capacity

HiveCloud

Upload once → market finds compute → pay per job → download results

HiveCloud features access to unaltered OpenDroneMap software and is proudly built from OpenDroneMap’s open-source ODM toolkit, licensed under the GNU AGPLv3. HiveCloud is not officially associated with OpenDroneMap or its products. See the OpenDroneMap Trademark Guidelines.

COLMAP sparse reconstruction uses unaltered COLMAP software (copyright © ETH Zurich and UNC Chapel Hill), licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. The names of ETH Zurich, UNC Chapel Hill, and their contributors are not used to endorse or promote HiveCloud. HiveCloud is not affiliated with ETH Zurich, UNC Chapel Hill, or the COLMAP project.

A future OpenMVS meshing pipeline will use unaltered OpenMVS software (copyright OpenMVS authors; core contributions by SEACAVE), licensed under the GNU AGPLv3. Legal notices and author attributions for OpenMVS are preserved as required by its license. HiveCloud is not officially associated with the OpenMVS authors or SEACAVE.