From pictures to numbers

Your deliverables carry measured geometry you can turn into distances, areas, elevations and volumes.

Distances, areas & angles

On the 2D Aerial Map, open the measurement tools, choose Distance or Area, and click points on the map. Totals update live; export as GeoJSON, KML, KMZ, or CSV.

Angles need true 3D points, so they live on the Point Cloud tab.

Elevation & contours

With elevation data (a point cloud or elevation layer), you can read the land's shape:

• Elevation profile — on the 2D Map, the Cross-section tool charts elevation between two points you click; in the Point Cloud viewer, trace a line. Every point is sampled from your own scan data.
• Contour lines — on the 2D Map's elevation layer. Set the contour interval and a major line every few contours, then export them as DXF for CAD.

Volumes (cut & fill)

Two volume tools answer different questions.

One pile, pad or pond → draw it with the area tool on the 2D Map. Then click Volume & acreage on the area's row in the results panel. It integrates only the ground inside your outline.

It names the elevation surface it read (surface model or bare earth) and the base surface it measured against.

The whole site → the cut/fill volume calculator under Terrain Analysis on your project's Details page, on projects with an elevation (DSM/DTM) layer.

1. It measures the whole scan extent against a reference level (base plane): cut above it, fill below it, and net.
2. Results come in cubic yards or cubic meters, with the covered area.
3. Compare mode shows where the surface rose or fell between two scans; the panel states what it counted and what it left out.

Both tools name the base surface beside every figure, because the base you pick changes the answer.

Tips

• Every number here is for planning, not a legal land survey; exports say so.
• Heights are WGS 84 ellipsoid heights, not NAVD 88 or a local benchmark. Every readout and export says so.
• Set feet or meters once in viewer settings; every tool follows.