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04/28/2026

Ever wonder what your stockpile auto-detection is actually identifying?

Now, you can see it.

With StockpileStudio’s Auto-Outline Confidence System, scrub the slider and watch detections update in real time. Each stockpile is color-coded by confidence, with green representing high-confidence selections and red showing more aggressive, lower-confidence candidates, so you can dial in exactly what you want to include.

Watch the video below or check out the full blog: https://pixelement.com/blog/2026/04/14/auto-outline-confidence.html

With StockpileStudio’s Auto-Outline Confidence System, you can visually and interactively control the balance of high-confidence and low-confidence stockpile selection…

04/20/2026

Golf courses are dynamic environments, constantly maintained, reshaped, and improved. Having accurate, up-to-date linework helps course managers, landscape designers, and engineers plan drainage, manage turf health, and maintain infrastructure.

Using a golf course dataset provided by Turfwerks, this example highlights detailed drafting of greens, trees, contours, and surrounding infrastructure, all produced by professional technicians from PixElement’s imagery outputs.

- Human drafted, not AI-generated.
- Delivered in DXF format, fully editable in app.
- Available for both Desktop Advanced and Cloud users within the Canvas.
- First Work Order = FREE

04/13/2026

Turn your aerial data into deliverables that matter with FastDraft. FastDraft provides professional 2D and 3D linework drafting directly from your PixElement projects, helping construction and planning teams move from scan to spec-ready CAD faster than ever.

In these examples, parking layouts, curbs, and building edges were drafted directly from site imagery and exported as editable DXF linework, not static overlays.

Available for both Cloud and Desktop users with your
first workorder being FREE.

03/19/2026

It's Surveyor Appreciation Week! A good time to recognize the role surveyors play in all aspects of infrastructure development.

Pictured are Aaron Hoffman and Rick Duthler from R.A Duthler Land Surveying out staking a property boundary in Northern Michigan. Snow, chainsaws, and frozen beards, field work doesn't get much better than that!

Duthler Land Surveying is one of the many teams using PixElement as part of their workflow for processing and extracting features from survey data, carrying that data through to final deliverables and decisions.

03/10/2026

StockpileStudio is now available in PixElement! This new add-on module detects and measures stockpiles directly inside your project—no manual digitizing or external tools required.

Automatically detect piles, refine boundaries, assign materials, and generate volume reports from a dedicated workspace.

Every user receives a one-month free trial to test it on real projects.

Read the tutorial and watch the walkthrough: https://pixelement.com/blog/2026/02/23/stockpile-studio-tutorial.html

StockpileStudio is a dedicated add-on module for detecting and measuring stockpiles directly inside PixElement…

02/16/2026

PixElement works with resellers who want to offer production-ready photogrammetry and LiDAR workflows without forcing customers into rigid, black-box pipelines.

The platform supports both cloud and desktop deployments and scales from small UAS projects to large, multi-sensor datasets, making it a strong fit for teams serving surveying, construction, mining, and infrastructure clients.

Reseller relationships tend to work best where there’s a need for:
• Flexible deployment options (cloud and desktop)
• Support for imagery, LiDAR, and combined workflows
• CAD- and GIS-ready deliverables for downstream users
• Software that complements existing hardware and production pipelines

We’ll be at GeoWeek Denver this week (Feb 16–18) connecting with organizations interested in expanding their geospatial offerings through a configurable, workflow-focused platform.

02/11/2026

Introducing StockpileStudio, a new PixElement module for stockpile measurement and reporting.

StockpileStudio uses automated stockpile detection to identify piles directly within a PixElement project, with controls for manual refinement to support precision workflows.

The module is designed around:

• Automated detection of stockpiles
• Manual refinement and material assignment
• Volume calculations tied to the source dataset
• Structured reporting for repeat surveys

It’s built for mining, materials, and construction teams who need repeatable, defensible volumes and want to reduce the time spent on volumetric workflows without sacrificing control.

We’ll be demoing StockpileStudio and walking through example datasets at Booth 843 GeoWeek Denver (Feb 16–18).

02/09/2026

For many photogrammetry and LiDAR projects, drafting is the longest part of the job. PixElement's FastDraft is a professional drafting service built into PixElement that takes linework off your plate.

Instead of redrawing entire sites or cleaning up unreliable auto-vectors, you can request scoped, CAD-ready linework tied directly to your dataset.

Common use cases:
• Roads, curbs, and striping
• Building footprints
• Utilities and drainage
• Site and surface features

Outputs are delivered as structured DWG/DXF layers, ready for design, quantities, or submittals. FastDraft is designed for teams who want to save significant time while still maintaining control over accuracy and deliverables.

We’ll be at GeoWeek Denver Feb 16–18 (Booth 843) walking through real-world workflows and use cases across surveying, construction, mining, and infrastructure.

02/06/2026

PixElement is built for teams who need reliable, CAD-ready outputs from aerial imagery and LiDAR.

We’ll be at GeoWeek Feb 16–18 (Booth 843) walking through real-world workflows and use cases across surveying, construction, mining, and infrastructure.

From ingestion through delivery, everything happens inside a single environment:
• Cloud or desktop processing
• RTK, PPK, and GCP workflows
• Point clouds, surfaces, meshes, and measurements
• CAD and GIS-ready exports

It’s designed to scale from small sites to city-scale projects while keeping accuracy and repeatability front and center.

01/27/2026

Overhead transmission lines don’t behave like static assets.
Conductor sag changes with temperature, load, and span length (sometimes by tens of feet), directly affecting clearance and risk.

In this PixStory, we walk through a large-format transmission corridor dataset and show how PixElement uses LiDAR-derived geometry to extract conductor profiles, assess clearance, evaluate vegetation encroachment, and support downstream engineering analysis.

A practical look at why image-only workflows fall short for utility corridors, and how hybrid LiDAR + imagery closes the gap.

Read the full story here: https://pixelement.com/blog/2025/12/01/pixstories-corridor-powerline-lidar.html

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Utility corridors challenge aerial mapping workflows in ways few other environments do. Thin conductors, tall poles, vegetation, and long linear geometry expose the limits of pure photogrammetry—and the strengths of LiDAR.