Orthomosaics from your Mavic. On your machine.

pan-o-mavic turns the photos of a MavicMapper grid mission into a georeferenced orthomosaic. It reads every frame's GPS, gimbal and lens data, aligns the images to centimetre-level seams and stitches them along lines that avoid anything that moved. All of it runs on your own computer.

100 % local processingFree for life Fully unlockedNo subscription
Download for Windows See how it works
The pan-o-mavic Studio: settings drawers on the left, an orthomosaic of the Maltese salt pans over the flight map, and the flight check panel on the right

Made for everyone

No cloud. No account. No price tag.

Mapping software usually means uploading gigabytes of photos to someone else's server and paying every month to get them back. pan-o-mavic doesn't work like that.

100 % local

Every step runs on your computer's own processor. Your photos and locations never leave your machine, and it works fully offline.

Free for life

No trial, no expiry, no "pro" version waiting around the corner. Download it once and it's yours.

Fully unlocked

Every feature, every setting, full resolution, unlimited images and projects. Nothing is held back.

No subscription

No account, no login, no payment details. Nothing to renew and nothing to cancel.

€0

For the good of all humankind. Good maps of our coasts, fields and towns shouldn't depend on a credit card. pan-o-mavic is a gift from JK4U to every pilot, photographer, researcher and curious mind with a drone.

How it works

Your mission already knows where every photo was taken.

pan-o-mavic uses that. It matches only images that actually overlap, refines every camera, builds a terrain model and stitches along clean seams.

1

Metadata

GPS, gimbal, lens and exposure from every frame.

2

Features

SIFT on all CPU cores, cached for re-runs.

3

Matching

Guided by the predicted overlap — fast and immune to repetitive texture.

4

Adjust

Two passes, dense optical flow and a terrain model.

5

Colour

Exposure and colour matched between neighbouring frames.

6

Render

Seam lines, multi-band blending, georeferenced GeoTIFF.

Features

Survey-grade results from a camera drone.

0cm

Median seam misalignment on a real 22-frame mission (previous version: 4.4 cm)

0cm

Along a flight line

0cm

Across neighbouring flight lines

0s

Feature stage on a re-run, straight from the cache

Measured on 22 DJI Mavic 3 Pro frames, three flight lines over the salt pans of Malta.

The Studio

One window. Everything live.

A local browser app that opens with a double-click. Every control maps to a command-line option, for when you prefer scripts.

Presets

Quick lookPlacement from metadata only, in seconds.
BalancedThe tuned defaults.
Max qualityMore features and ties, five blend bands, 16-bit.
DxOFor DxO PureRAW or other pre-corrected images.

Shortcuts

Ctrl + EnterBuild the orthomosaic 1 – 6Switch tabs FFit to view XExclude the selected image Shift + dragDraw an area of interest

Settings

Tuned for the Mavic 3 Pro. Open to everything.

Defaults handle most missions without changes. When you want control, every setting lives in a drawer on the Studio's left rail.

Download

Free, forever. Ready in seconds.

  1. Download the zip and extract it to any folder — no installer, nothing written to your system.
  2. Double-click pan-o-mavic.exe. The Studio opens in your browser.
  3. Load a mission folder and press Build.
Download v0.5.0b4 ZIP · Windows 64-bit Plan missions with MavicMapper
SystemWindows 10 or 11, 64-bit
ProcessingCPU — all cores. NVIDIA CUDA coming in a future release
CamerasMavic 3 Pro (Hasselblad, medium tele), Lito X1
InputDJI JPG, DNG, DxO PureRAW output
OutputGeoTIFF, world file, DSM, previews
InternetNot needed — runs fully offline
DownloadZIP with a ready-to-run .exe
Price€0 — for life
Version 0.5.0b4Setup, commands, supported files & edition notes

Start

Double-click pan-o-mavic.exe. A console window opens (keep it open) and the Studio opens in your browser at http://127.0.0.1:8765. Everything runs on this computer; nothing is uploaded. Closing the console window quits the app.

Windows may show “Windows protected your PC” for a new, unsigned program: More info → Run anyway.

Command line

pan-o-mavic.exe D:\flights\mellieha_0412 -o D:\ortho\mellieha.tif
pan-o-mavic.exe --help
pan-o-mavic.exe studio --port 8800 --no-browser

--help lists all options, identical to the Studio controls.

Input

JPG, DNG (Mavic 3 Pro / Lito X1 raw, decoded natively) and 8/16-bit TIFF.

For DxO PureRAW, select the DxO output folder. Missing GPS / gimbal / exposure metadata is read from untouched originals in the same folder, parent folder or “Originals for metadata”, matched by the DJI capture key DJI_YYYYMMDDhhmmss_NNNN.

Output · next to the GeoTIFF

name.tif (GeoTIFF RGBA, UTM), name.tfw, name_dsm.tif (terrain model), name_preview.jpg, name_report.json (poses, gains, lens, settings), name_seams.npz, name_surface.npz, name_diagnostics.zip (Report → Export diagnostics, or --diagnostics).

This edition

  • One .exe, no Python, no installation. Disk cache in %LOCALAPPDATA%\pan-o-mavic\cache.
  • Renders on the CPU (all cores). NVIDIA CUDA and the LightGlue matcher come in a later release; --gpu and --matcher lightglue fall back to CPU / RootSIFT.