UltraMap version 6
All new features at a glance
What's New in UltraMap 6?
We’re continuously improving UltraMap through regular software updates – delivering new features and meaningful enhancements that boost efficiency and elevate product quality. Each version builds on the trusted core, while pushing boundaries in performance, automation, and usability.
Curious what’s changed in UltraMap? Here’s an overview of the most important updates and developments of version 6!
The UltraMap 3D module has been revamped to ensure a more seamless and reliable experience. With added support for local reprocessing, a workflow for external mesh editing, improved export options, and compatibility with the CESIUM file format, it offers a greatly improved user experience.
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UltraMap Studio Part #8: 3D Production
UltraMap 3D evolved: Local reprocessing, Cesium export & more
Version: UM v6.6
Module: UM 3D
Release: 2025-06
This release significantly enhances the DTM's accuracy, consistency, and usability in numerous areas while maintaining the core methodology and ensuring a seamless, familiar experience within the Ortho Pipeline module. These improvements allow customers to effortlessly generate a globally consistent DTM at the push of a button – perfectly aligned and ready for use anywhere in the world.
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Ground truth, refined: The new photogrammetric Terrain Modeling in UltraMap
Version: UM v6.6
Module: UM Dense Matcher
Release: 2025-06
This release introduces full support for image processing with the UltraCam Osprey 4.2 Standard lens system.
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Version: UM v6.5
Module: All
Release: 2025-04
This release introduces full support for image processing with the UltraCam Eagle f150 lens system.
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Version: UM v6.4
Module: All
Release: 2024-08
When brightening shadows, a common challenge is the loss of contrast. To address this, UltraMap 6.4 introduces a powerful ultra-wide Local Contrast Tool. This tool helps strike a balance between achieving brighter shadows and crisper images.
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UltraMap Radiometry: Key strategies for exceptional aerial imagery
Version: UM v6.4
Module: UM Essentials
Release: 2024-08
The new Oblique Image Modes – nadir-only, corridor mapping and all (default) – for 4th and 3rd generation UltraCam Osprey systems and the UltraCam Dragon are now fully supported in UltraMap. Additionally, you can limit the processing of older projects, originally captured with all cones, to specific uses in the Raw Data Center (RDC).
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New operating modes for UltraCam oblique systems
Version: UM v6.4
Module: UM Essentials
Release: 2024-08
With this release, full support for image processing with the UltraCam Dragon 4.1 is available. For more information on the extended workflow with LiDAR data, please check out our blog post about high-end data processing of imagery and LiDAR.
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UltraCam Dragon: High-end data processing of imagery and LiDAR
Version: UM v6.4
Module: All
Release: 2024-08
The enhanced Curves Tool adds powerful flexibility, allowing users to combine multiple curve adjustments with dedicated shadow and highlight controls. It’s an effective way to tailor aerial imagery to your desired visual output.
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UltraMap Radiometry: Key strategies for exceptional aerial imagery
Version: UM v6.3
Module: UM Essentials
Release: 2024-06
UltraMap v6.2 brings True Pixel Processing (TPP) to all 4th generation UltraCam systems, enhancing image quality now also for Bayer pattern-based systems such as the UltraCam Osprey 4.1, Condor 4.1 and Merlin 4.1 models. This update includes advanced de-Bayering techniques and overall improved noise reduction for sharper, cleaner images.
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UltraMap 6.2: True Pixel Processing (TPP) enhancements
Version: UM v6.2
Module: UM Essentials
Release: 2024-01
In UltraMap v6.2, new functionalities have been introduced for the Radiometry Archive, allowing users to export, store and import radiometric adjustment parameters – with import options now not only for the entire image block but also for image subsets. This becomes particularly helpful when dealing with very different flight missions merged within a project, a common scenario when a project spans multiple days.
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UltraMap 6.2: Efficient radiometric optimization with new archive features
Version: UM v6.2
Module: UM Essentials
Release: 2024-01
Discover the RawQC Viewer’s role in simplifying the quality control procedure! This tool allows users to quickly review critical data after a flight without prior processing, potentially saving a lot of time if a reflight is needed.
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Enhance data quality control with RawQC Viewer
Version: UM v6.1
Module: UM Essentials
Release: 2023-08
This release introduces full support for image processing with the UltraCam Eagle f120 lens system.
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UltraCam Eagle 4.1
UltraCam Eagle 4.1 sample data
Webinar Recording: UltraCam Eagle 4.1
Version: UM v6.1
Module: All
Release: 2023-08
Benefit from UltraMap’s holistic approach in which the new sophisticated best-in-class water handling strategy is enhancing the quality of nearly every product throughout the all-in-one photogrammetric workflow. Produce DSMs, DTMs and orthophotos of even higher quality significantly faster with the automatically generated water mask. Water masks can be exported in vector format.
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Explore UltraMap 6.0: #1 Water handling
Version: UM v6.0
Module: UM Dense Matcher, UM Ortho Pipeline
Release: 2023-01
UltraMap helps users keep pace with the ever-increasing amounts of data by constantly optimizing its performance for most efficient large-scale data production. UltraMap v6.0 introduces new and more effective file management, leading to faster loading times and faster viewing speed and saving of products in the Ortho Viewer.
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Explore UltraMap 6.0: #3 Enhanced Ortho Performance
UltraMap Studio Part #5: Generate heightfield and ortho products
Version: UM v6.0
Module: UM Ortho Pipeline
Release: 2023-01
Our widely adopted and highly efficient UltraMap approach to data interaction and processing has been incorporated into the revised Ortho reprocessing workflow. Reprocess edits across all ortho products in an even more concise and targeted manner in the Ortho Pipeline module.
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UltraMap Studio Part #7: Orthomosaic seamline editing
UltraMap Studio Part #5: Generate heightfield and ortho products
Version: UM v6.0
Module: UM Ortho Pipeline
Release: 2023-01
Retain all pixel information from exposure to the final data product in even higher quality and more efficiently than before with our new optimized method to calculate the development of the raw image.
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UltraMap 6.2: True Pixel Processing (TPP) enhancements
Explore UltraMap 6.0: #2 True Pixel Processing (TPP)
Version: UM v6.0
Module: UM Essentials
Release: 2023-01
