Theta Informatics LLC provides OpenAthena™, software which allows common drones to spot precise locations quickly:
Theta's flagship platform OpenAthena for Android allows operators of regular off-the-shelf drones to obtain a precise location from any pixel of a single drone image.
Operators may instantly obtain the exact location of any selected point within a drone image, providing actionable insights faster. Target resolution is accomplished by combining the sensor metadata automatically embeded in drone images (containing data such as lat/lon, camera angle, and zoom level) with an offline-ready Digital Elevation Model which stores the altitude of terrain. This unique approach allows instant location analysis using just one drone image, no need for time-consuming mapping or processing!
The app's custom data extraction technique supports most Skydio, Parrot, Teal, Autel, and DJI aircraft. It includes a database of over 50 camera models (including both color and thermal cameras) and automatically accounts for factors such as roll/pitch/yaw, position, crop, focal length, lens distortion, and optical and digital zoom. The geodesy-based target resolution engine then simulates a raycast for the selected point towards a digital twin of the Earth to give you the precise coordinates of your selected point within the image. The engine precisely accounts for latitudinal variations and the curvature, rotation, and gravity of the Earth.
The app natively supports latitude/longitude, UTM, NATO 1m, 10m, and 100m Grid Refs, CK-42 lat/lon, and CK-42 Gauss Krüger Grid Ref as output modes.
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All data processing occurs offline (once a Digital Elevation Model is loaded automatically). This keeps your data private and secure.
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Signed builds and a secure software supply chain built entirely from source preclude manipulation by bad actors.
OpenAthena for iOS is available for users of iPhone® and iPad® products:
https://github.com/Theta-Limited/OpenAthenaIOS
Theta Informatics LLC hosts a RESTful API service at https://api.openathena.com which makes OpenAthena's terrain-raycast technique available to your own hardware and software applications. To request a free evaluation API key, email info@theta.limited.
Deep Dive and video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it9khfq-IeQ
Theta Informatics' OpenAthena™ Core makes OpenAthena's novel terrain-raycast technique available as a portable Java software library. Unlike the mobile Android and iOS versions, OpenAthena Core is designed and licensed to enable you to integrate the software's novel terrain-raycast technique into your own firm's solutions.
OpenAthena Core is provided to purchasers as a Java software library with full source code. This allows OpenAthena Core to be extremely flexible for integration as a component of your own proprietary solution. It features a command line interface, Java bindings, and remote use over a RESTful API for seamless integration with your existing software:
More info is available at https://theta.limited/openathena-core
Contact info@theta.limited to obtain a free evaluation copy for your developers.
The OpenAthena apps support seamless integrations with platforms such as the Android Team Awareness Kit using the industry-standard Cursor on Target (CoT) interchange format:
OpenAthena for Android is entirely free to use.
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