Professional imagery analysis.
Free. In your browser.

GIS Workbench™ brings photogrammetry, stereo, SAR, spectral, LiDAR and full-motion video analysis to a single HTML file. Nothing to install, no licence server, and no data leaving your machine.

New release coming soon

Runs in Chrome or Edge 120+ · Works offline · Windows, macOS, Linux

GIS Workbench 2.0 on a clean canvas: airborne hyperspectral imagery of the University of Houston campus as a colour-infrared composite fills the window, with the navigation rail on the left, the command search on top and the contextual tool pill over the image.
2018 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest, University of Houston and NCALM, CC BY 4.0.
Licence cost
$0
Install required
None
Analyst commands
585
GIS formats supported
200+
Free, forever

Enterprise-grade capability without the enterprise price tag.

Commercial imagery suites are licensed per seat, tiered into bundles, extended by paid add-ons and kept current through annual maintenance. GIS Workbench is none of those things.

  • No seats, bundles or add-on modules to buy — every capability is included (ECW conversion uses your own ECW licence)
  • No licence server, dongle or activation to manage
  • No annual maintenance contract to keep receiving updates
  • Open source under Apache-2.0: inspect, audit, extend and redistribute

GIS Workbench

$0

Every feature. Every user. Every update.

Get started
Any OS with a modern browser
Fully offline & air-gap friendly
One 8.9 MB HTML file
Your data never leaves the device
Capabilities

One workbench for all your geospatial data.

From NITF to LiDAR to motion imagery — 585 commands across twelve capability areas.

Image analysis

A GPU image chain and multi-panel workspace built for analysts who live in imagery.

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Geopositioning & mensuration

Rigorous coordinates and measurements, each with an honest error estimate.

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Sensor models & photogrammetry

Sensor-model–aware analysis from single images to block adjustment.

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Stereo & 3D

Stereo viewing and 3D scenes without special hardware.

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Terrain

Extract, edit and analyse elevation data directly in the browser.

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SAR

Complex SAR analysis from SICD, SIDD, UAVSAR and Sentinel-1 data.

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Multispectral & hyperspectral

Spectral analysis on the GPU, from band math to anomaly detection.

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LiDAR & point clouds

Millions of points, streamed and rendered at interactive frame rates.

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Motion imagery

Full-motion video with embedded metadata, synced to the map.

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Feature extraction & GIS

Capture, attribute and validate features with assisted digitising.

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Products & reporting

Finished maps and reports straight from the workspace.

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Private by design

Your imagery never leaves your machine.

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Feature parity

How close is free? Closer than you think.

We compared GIS Workbench against 71 ArcGIS Pro capabilities. 54 are fully covered, with 17 partially covered, and we list every gap openly.

100% covered

71 of 71 ArcGIS Pro capabilities

54 Full17 Partial0 Not supported
See the full comparison
CapabilityArcGIS ProGIS Workbench
Image chain: DRA, stretches, LUTs, filtersYesFull
Multi-sensor triangulation (block adjustment)YesFull
Automatic DSM / DEM extractionYesFull
Amplitude change, coherent change detection, pair finder, sub-aperturesPartialFull
KLV video with map footprintYesFull
Vendor rigorous optical satellite modelsPartialPartial
Licence costCommercialCommercial$0
In action

A familiar workspace, rebuilt for the web.

Analysts trained on desktop imagery tools will feel at home from the first click.

A 15-million-point airborne LiDAR tile of the University of Houston campus shown in 3D, coloured by elevation, with buildings, trees and walkways.
LiDAR in 3D2018 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest, University of Houston and NCALM, CC BY 4.0.
An SRTM elevation model rendered with colour relief in the Classic layout, with the data view, map view and layer manager docked alongside.
Terrain analysis (Classic layout)SRTM elevation data, U.S. Government public domain.
Drone video of an autumn forest with a heads-up display driven by the flight log: sensor position, frame time, frame centre in MGRS and the computed camera footprint.
Full-motion videoBAMBI UAV dataset (bambi.eco), CC BY 4.0.
Private & secure by design

Built for sensitive imagery.

GIS Workbench runs entirely on your machine. There is no remote server to send data to.

Local-only

Files are read straight from disk with range reads and never leave your device. The optional sidecar runs on the same machine, at 127.0.0.1.

Locked-down network

A strict Content Security Policy allows only curated origins and the local sidecar. Nothing is fetched until you go Online, and every request is logged.

Memory-safe parsers

NITF, LAS, KLV and other parsers are written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly and fuzz-tested. Sidecar tools run as sandboxed processes: Low integrity on Windows, Landlock on Linux.

Air-gap ready

Copy one file onto an isolated network and it just works. Optional packs add geoids, codecs and AI models.

Get going in a minute

Three steps. No IT ticket.

  1. 1

    Open

    Launch the hosted app, or download the single HTML file for offline use.

  2. 2

    Load

    Drag in NITF, GeoTIFF, SICD, LAS, DTED, ERDAS IMAGINE, NetCDF, MBTiles, video and more. Data stays on your disk.

  3. 3

    Analyse

    Measure, extract, analyse and publish products to PDF, PowerPoint, Word or KMZ.

A new release is coming.

Version 2.6 is on its way. Tell us what you would like to see.

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