What is Soarvo?
Overview
Soarvo is a geospatial data management platform where teams upload, view, and collaborate on location-based data — including drone surveys, point clouds, 3D models, orthomosaics, GIS layers, and more — all in one place.
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Shows: Soarvo Directory home
The Directory home view lists your Projects and Locations in one place.
The Two Environments
Soarvo has two core environments:
Web Portal
The web portal is where most data management, review, and administration happens. From the portal you can:
- Organise data into Projects and Locations
- Upload geospatial datasets including orthomosaics, point clouds, 3D meshes, DWG files, shapefiles, and GIS data
- View and navigate data in an interactive 2D and 3D map viewer
- Create and manage Features — point, line, and polygon annotations on your data
- Measure distances, areas, and volumes
- Manage your team: invite users and control who sees each project and location
- Project Dashboard — a configurable widget board that summarises activity, inventory, and to-dos across the project.
Mobile App
The Soarvo mobile app (iOS and Android) is for field use — capturing GPS-positioned features, filling in data forms, and syncing with the portal.
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Shows: Soarvo Map view
Switch to Map view to see every location on a world map.
How Data Is Organised
All data in Soarvo lives in a two-level hierarchy:
- Projects — top-level containers that group related sites together (e.g. all sites for one client or survey type)
- Locations — specific physical sites inside a project, each holding its own datasets
User Roles
Every Soarvo user is assigned a role that controls what they can see and do. There are seven roles: Administrator, Project Manager, Project Supervisor, Editor, Viewer, Mobile-User, and Mobile-Only. See User Roles Explained for a full breakdown.