One annual license
FrameForge
+ TitanMesh
$75recurring$99non-renewing
USAH Institute
Build the tools the field actually needs.
Scientific software for extracting evidence from video, navigating massive 3D reconstructions, and protecting cave-survey records.
01 / Why this exists
The difficult work continues after the dive.
Field observations become useful only when teams can prepare, inspect, understand, and preserve them. That chain demands specialized software, but the communities doing the work are too small to attract patient commercial investment.
USAH Institute maintains that missing infrastructure as one connected nonprofit software program—not as a collection of disposable experiments.
02 / From field to archive
One evidence chain. Four distinct jobs.
Each tool serves a deliberate stage. Together, they move information from capture to a durable shared record.
- 01
Observe
Video, imagery, LiDAR, and survey observations are captured where access is difficult and every return trip is expensive.
- 02
Prepare
FrameForge turns source video into deliberate image sequences, removing redundant frames before photogrammetry begins.
- 03
Inspect
TitanMesh makes very large meshes and point clouds navigable, measurable, and practical to communicate.
- 04
Preserve
SpeleoDB keeps cave-survey records versioned, recoverable, and available for accountable collaboration.
03 / The funding route
A license creates a direct line back into the work.
Revenue from the two desktop tools is reinvested in the engineering, operations, and open infrastructure that make the complete program sustainable.
FrameForge
- 01
Engineering
Design, implementation, performance work, testing, and long-term maintenance.
- 02
Operations
Release infrastructure, signed updates, hosting, security, documentation, and support.
- 03
Open access
Continued stewardship of SpeleoDB as free, open-source survey infrastructure.
04 / Accountability
Paid desktop tools sustain open infrastructure.
FrameForge and TitanMesh solve focused desktop problems. Their license proceeds also help keep SpeleoDB free and open source for the wider cave-survey community. The three projects serve different jobs, but reinforce the same scientific mission.