Blue Marble Geographics, USA
An all-in-one GIS package that handles more than 300 spatial data formats, with terrain analysis, lidar processing and drone imagery workflows in a single application. Licensed by subscription in three tiers: Essentials, Advanced and Professional.
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Exclusive India partner of Blue Marble Geographics
More than 1,000 clients served
300+ supported data formats
Pixels to Points drone imagery processing in Professional
Schnell Drone Technologies Ltd. is the exclusive India partner of Blue Marble Geographics, USA, and has served more than 1,000 clients with Global Mapper licensing, training and support.
Global Mapper is a cutting-edge GIS application providing a comprehensive array of spatial data processing tools, with access to an unrivalled variety of data formats. It is designed to serve both the GIS professional and the engineer who needs geospatial capability without a specialist toolchain.
Subscription licensing
Blue Marble has moved Global Mapper to annual subscription licensing. The earlier perpetual Standard and Pro editions are replaced by three tiers â Essentials, Advanced and Professional â each adding to the one below it.
Data viewing, conversion and coordinate transformation. Import and export across 300+ formats, immersive 2D and 3D visualisation, basic vector drawing, batch conversion and reprojection, online streaming imagery and basemaps, and display and filter controls for lidar point clouds.
Everything in Essentials, plus the full analysis toolset: advanced vector editing and spatial operations, terrain analysis and creation, volume and cut-and-fill, imagery and raster analysis, map design with MAPublisher, scripting in GMS and Python, GPS and RTK support, and the Geographic Calculator.
Everything in Advanced, plus the survey-grade workload: full lidar processing with automatic classification and strip alignment, Pixels to Points photogrammetry from drone and UAV imagery, AI and machine-learning land cover classification and object detection, and 3D mesh creation and editing.
What each subscription tier includes, feature by feature. Each tier is cumulative â Advanced carries everything in Essentials, and Professional carries everything in Advanced.
| Feature | Essentials | Advanced | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core & visualisation | |||
| Basic geospatial format import/export | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Immersive 2D & 3D visualization | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Basic vector drawing & feature creation | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Batch file conversion & reprojection | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Online streaming imagery, basemaps & terrain | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| 3D data creation, fly-through recording & layer animation | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| File format support | |||
| Comprehensive format support (300+ formats) | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Lidar/point cloud formats (LAS, LAZ, etc.) | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Spatial database support (GeoPackage, PostGIS, etc.) | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| S-63 encrypted chart support | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| ESRI MapServer & ImageServer direct streaming | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| GeoPackage visual fidelity: symbology, labels and styles preserved on exchange | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Niche lidar formats — E57, Leica PTS, BPF, LAS NIR/1.5 | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Vector tools | |||
| Advanced vector feature creation, editing & analysis | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Spatial operations (buffer, overlay, clip, dissolve) | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Thematic & choropleth mapping | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Attribute editing, joining, calculation & querying | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Find/fix topology issues (gaps, overlaps, duplicates) | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Address geocoding | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Variography and kriging | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Geodetic tools | |||
| Basic geodetic reprojection & transformation | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Built-in advanced geodetic analysis | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Geographic Calculator stand alone application | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Terrain analysis & creation | |||
| Terrain analysis: contour generation, viewshed, watershed, and flood simulation | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Advanced terrain shading: slope, aspect, hillshading | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Basic terrain and grid creation: TIN elevation grid | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Volume calculation, pile volumes, cut & fill analysis | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Least cost path analysis | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Elevation grid QC against 3D control points | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Breakline calculation: Generate Breaklines and Guided Breakline Extraction | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Terrain painting (manual DTM editing) | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Advanced grid methods: binning method terrain creation, roughness and relative elevation | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Optimize placement of pad site | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Combine/compare terrain layers | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Imagery & raster analysis | |||
| Image blending, feathering, cropping & pan sharpening | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Image rectification / georeferencing | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Create multi-band image layer | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Image/raster paint (editing, healing, pixel value reassignment) | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Raster calculation: NDVI, NDWI, NBR & custom formulas | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Image & raster reclassification | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Automated vectorization of imagery & terrain (Vectorize Raster) | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Solar Power/Shadow Map analysis | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Point cloud visual analysis | |||
| Display & filter controls for lidar point cloud data (density, height, intensity, classification) | Included in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Advanced lidar processing | |||
| Point cloud QC: comparison against 3D control points | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Strip alignment (3D adjustment of lidar points) | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Create swath separation image | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Voronoi density: localized point cloud density measurement | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Manual point cloud classification toolset | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Point cloud profiling: view and edit lidar in path profile | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Change detection: compare Point Clouds | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Auto-alignment: Fit Point Clouds | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Advanced querying, selection and filtering of lidar | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Automatic classification: ground, buildings, vegetation, power lines, and poles | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Vector feature extraction from classified point clouds | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Colorize lidar from loaded imagery (no export required) | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Automated tree trunk classification | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Live preview window in automatic Point Cloud analysis | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Photogrammetry | |||
| Pixels to Points®: point clouds, orthoimagery and textured 3D models from drone and UAV imagery | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Multi-spectral imagery support in Pixels to Points | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| AI / ML image analysis | |||
| Land Cover Classification: deep learning models including specialized desert and chaparral models | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Object detection: buildings and vehicles from high-resolution imagery | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Custom model training: fine-tune land cover and object detection models on your own data | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| 3D mesh & modeling | |||
| Create 3D model from selected lidar | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Create volumetric 3D mesh buffer features from vector | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Mesh editing: simplify, partition, reverse faces and normals, convert handedness | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Mesh conversion to and from vector, point cloud and raster/terrain | Not in Essentials | Not in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Map design & output | |||
| Map design & pre-print layout editor | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| MAPublisher: professional cartographic design and production in Adobe Illustrator | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Scripting & automation | |||
| Global Mapper Scripting (GMS) | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Python workflow scripting | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Script builder (record UI actions as script) | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Built-in script editor with syntax coloring | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| Streamlined mobile data merging | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| GPS & field data | |||
| External GPS & RTK support | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
| GPS tracking & waypoints | Not in Essentials | Included in Advanced | Included in Professional |
Feature list published by Blue Marble Geographics and current as of October 2026. Licence terms and Indian pricing on request â talk to Schnell, the exclusive India partner.
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