DJI

DJI designs and manufactures drones and camera systems for commercial, industrial and consumer use, and DJI Terra is the desktop toolkit that turns the imagery those aircraft capture into survey grade maps and 3D models. Terra runs on Windows 10 or later in 64 bit only, and DJI states plainly that it does not run on macOS and does not support AMD graphics cards. From version 5.0.0 the software dropped most flight route planning, keeping it only for detailed inspection and agricultural work, and moved to a model where no upgrade or maintenance fees are charged at all.

Terra added Gaussian splatting in version 5.0, which converts up to thirty thousand photos into a radiance field in about half the time its own mesh workflow takes. DJI puts throughput at roughly 500 photos per hour on a single workstation and roughly 300 to 400 images per gigabyte of RAM, and says every additional 10 gigabytes of free memory processes another 4,000 photos. Output exports in one click to PLY and to B3DM in the 3D Tiles format, so a reconstruction reaches Cesium, Unreal Engine or Blender without a secondary conversion, and the same project can be switched between a traditional photogrammetry mesh and a Gaussian splat.

Version 5.3.0 added cluster reconstruction for Gaussian splatting, which spreads a single splat job across several machines rather than one workstation and lifts the ceiling that RAM sets on a standalone build. It shipped on July 23 2026 as a Windows iso.

DJI Reality is the viewer half of the pipeline and has become a product in its own right. It arrived inside Terra and now ships as a standalone executable at V1.0.1, dated July 23 2026, as well as inside the Terra V5.3.0 installer alongside DJI Modify V1.6.0. DJI Enterprise now describes its published models as built in either DJI Reality or DJI Terra, which puts Reality on the same footing as the reconstruction application rather than beneath it. For web delivery, DJI publishes a TerraGS CesiumJS Web Plugin as a zip on the Terra downloads page, dated June 9 2026.

The hardware floor is specific. DJI's stated minimum is 32 gigabytes of system RAM and an NVIDIA graphics card with 4 gigabytes of GPU memory and Shader Model 6.1 or above, with 64 gigabytes of RAM or more and an NVIDIA 2070 or higher recommended. Licensing splits by edition, with Agriculture running one year, Standard, Flagship and Education perpetual, and Pro, Electricity and Cluster editions sold through dealers, and licenses bind to a specific machine so replacing hardware invalidates an offline license.

Splatting reaches beyond Terra across the wider DJI product line. FlightHub 2 added Gaussian splatting support, moving reconstruction into DJI's fleet and mission management platform, and DJI's own aircraft supply the imagery, with Terra reading captures from the Phantom 4 RTK, the Matrice 30 and 300 RTK series with H20 payloads and the Mavic 3 Enterprise among others.