Inside the Software That Turns Ukraine's Drone Footage Into 3D Battlefield Maps in Under 90 Minutes

About this episode

Viktoriia Yarumchuk, CEO of Farsight Vision, sharesinsights into Farsight Vision’s innovative battlefield intelligence solutions, the technical challenges and the challenges of defence tech integration.Discover how data processing, orthophotos and real-time analytics are transforming military operations. Viktoriia talks about some of the security, operational challenges and technological innovations in Ukraine's defencesector, opening up about Farsight Vision’s role in modern warfare.

Farsight Vision is the de facto standard for battlefield geospatial intelligence in Ukraine, used by approximately 60% of the country's defence forces. FarsightVision solved an important battlefield challenge. In 2022 and early 2023, Ukraine was fielding thousands of drones - but the data those drones captured was either wasted or backlogged for days. There was no standard for how sensor data should be formatted, no clear place to store it, and no reliable way toprocess drone footage into something commanders could use to plan operations.With satellite imagery sometimes months out of date, commanders were sending units into the unknown. Farsight's solution was a constantly updated 2D and 3D digital twin of the battlefield - orthophotos, orthomosaics and 3D models generated directly from drone footage and ready for planning within 90 minutes of the flight.

One of Farsight's most significant advantages is its neural networks. Most competitors - civilian tools and teams outside Ukraine alike - trained their detection models on open-source footage of poor quality or datasets captured years ago. Farsight trained on constantly updated, real battlefield data across all camera qualities, all weather conditions, all terrain types. The team ran thousands of experiments, drawing on approaches from biochemistry, real estate 3D modeling,and blood-test computer vision. The result: contextual detection that understands pixel combinations, terrain type, camera angle, and elevation simultaneously - and crucially, works without GPS in fully GNSS-denied environments, which most civilian photogrammetry tools fundamentally cannot do.

The competitive landscape is nuanced. Civilian photogrammetry tools exist but require GPS. Detection tools exist - mostly trained on stale data. Simulation systems offer scenario-based training, but in artificial terrain - typically somewhere in the Middle East, not Ukraine's actual frontline. Farsight generates 3D models from real battlefield terrain, updated continuously, and enables genuine after-action review of training on the actual ground where it matters. NATO allies are interested - but the honest assessment from Viktoriia is that most lack the full ecosystem to use Farsight effectively. They need drone pilots who can fly in denied environments, electronic warfare capability, C2 systems, and communication infrastructure. Ukraine was forced to build allof that under fire.

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