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Minimum System Requirements for Terapetra Drone Photogrammetry

Aligned with Terapetra README and docs/QUALITY_PRESETS.md.

RAM is the primary limit on maximum project size. GPU VRAM affects dense reconstruction speed.

ComponentBasic (< 500 images)Advanced (1,500+ images)
CPU4–12 cores, 2.0 GHz+i7/i9 or Ryzen 7/9, 6–32 cores, 3.0 GHz+
RAM16–32 GB32–128 GB
GPUNVIDIA RTX 2060+ (CUDA)NVIDIA RTX 3080/4070+ (CUDA)
StorageSSD strongly recommended

NVIDIA driver downloads →

Operating system

  • Windows: Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) — primary target.
  • Linux: Terapetra AppImage on supported distributions (filename listed on the release notes page).

Hardware

  • GPU: NVIDIA with CUDA strongly recommended for dense reconstruction.
  • RAM: 8 GB minimum; 16 GB+ recommended for typical medium datasets.
  • Storage: SSD strongly recommended for image sets and dense outputs.

Software (source installation)

  • Python: 3.10+ via Terapetra engine conda environment terapetra-engine (environment.yml).
  • External tools: COLMAP, GDAL, PDAL on PATH (seeTERAPETRA_COLMAP_BIN if needed).
  • Mesh: Open3D installed with Terapetra (pip install -e ".[dev,gui,pyvista]" optional viewer extras).

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