Aerial image processing · decentralized compute
Photogrammetry and Gaussian Splatting without expensive cloud VMs
HiveCloud is your control plane for photogrammetry and Gaussian Splatting: 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, or Gaussian Splatting from a COLMAP reconstruction — at a fraction of traditional cloud prices. OpenMVS meshing is on the roadmap.
OpenDroneMap processing software
Available in Beta
- Pay for actual compute used, not idle server hours
- Featuring OpenDroneMap processing software, COLMAP, Gaussian Splatting, and YOLO training in Beta; OpenMVS coming soon
- One upload, one dashboard, many providers bidding for your job
How your photogrammetry job travels through the hive
No single datacenter owns the whole pipeline.
You upload
Aerial photos, scans, or archives go straight to secure EU storage from your browser.
Orchestrate
We package your project, match hardware requirements, and publish work to the open compute market.
Network runs it
Independent nodes compete for your job — featuring OpenDroneMap, COLMAP, and Gaussian Splatting in Beta.
You collect loot
Orthophotos, point clouds, meshes, Gaussian splats, logs — delivered as archives ready to download.
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 and Gaussian Splatting
Featuring OpenDroneMap processing software in Beta for orthophotos, point clouds, and meshes, plus COLMAP GPU reconstruction and Gaussian Splatting. 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 Available in 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.
Gaussian Splatting Available in Beta
Train a splat from a COLMAP reconstruction — pick an existing output or upload one. HiveCloud runs Brush on GPU.
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.
Dense reconstruction uses unaltered COLMAP multi-view stereo (copyright © ETH Zurich and UNC Chapel Hill), licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.
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.
Gaussian Splatting jobs use Brush or, when selected, LichtFeld Studio (licensed under the GNU GPLv3), and may also run unaltered COLMAP for sparse reconstruction. HiveCloud is not affiliated with the original 3D Gaussian Splatting authors, the Brush project, or LichtFeld Studio.