** Taps microphone ** Is this thing on? Ok. Might be dating myself a bit with the title. But I kind of think of the next stage of OpenDroneMap as a Voltron moment. For those who didn’t grow up with Voltron in the 80s, it was American adapted Japanese anime with people piloting mecha robots that could all come together in one big mecha robot … Continue reading OpenDroneMap—The Voltron Era

Or something… . I often write bad code prior to writing good code. I can’t help myself. I want the solution so that I can, with great satisfaction, replace all the bits of bad code until it is good enough. So, today I needed to separate a bunch of drone data into individual flights so that I can process each flight separately. So, the first … Continue reading Bad coding will continue until the complaining stops

Recently downloaded a fairly large dataset that I wanted to subset according to a bounding box. This is a bucket of 40GB+ images, and I still need to upgrade the storage on my laptop. I’m traveling, so I don’t have all my portable storage, so I wondered the best approach. I don’t know if I found that, but I did find a good enough approach: … Continue reading Using mount-zip to access the inside of zip files

I recently wanted to remote mount drives on a server I maintain and I didn’t really want to add any services, so I fired up an ssh file system. There are good tutorials describing how to install fuse if it isn’t already and various configuration pieces, and pretty quickly I was able to manually mount a drive. But I found it fairly confusing to get … Continue reading ssh file system: fuse mount for sftp

<shameless plug> We’ve got a small fundraiser for OpenDroneMap running through the end of the month that gets you a branded t-shirt or crewneck sweatshirt. Proceeds go to the project and you get a nice shirt. win/win. Now with obligatory link… 😀 </shameless plug> Continue reading OpenDroneMap T-shirts and Crewneck Sweatshirts

I did a fun thing recently, taking the pile of data I have for my house, processed in OpenDroneMap, and used it to do solar potential mapping. It’s not strictly an approach I needed to use, but it was fun, and I wrote it up here: https://community.opendronemap.org/t/overkill-using-photogrammetry-for-solar-estimates/13145 TL;DR: first I used the 3D models to measure things that might be easier to measure with other … Continue reading EVs, Solar, OpenDroneMap, and moar EVs

I have had the pleasure the last couple days of meeting and collaborating with Professor Murat Maga’s lab at Seattle Children’s Hospital and University of Washington. In addition to his research in epigenetics and related morphological topics, Professor Maga has led the SlicerMorph project, an NSF funded project to extend 3D Slicer to better handle biological 3D specimen data. In other words: recognizing the need … Continue reading ODM–Special Halloween Addition

In my previous post, I mentioned I am now working at Oberlin College as a systems administrator. The position focuses on research support, but to do good research support, I have a fair amount of work that i need to do listening: listening to the needs of students and faculty, listening to the systems themselves and slowly and carefully navigating through upgrades and improvements. But … Continue reading Coastal features in photogrammetric DTM

Recently, I took on a role as Systems Administrator with focus on Research Support at Oberlin College and Conservatory. It is both a broader and deeper user base than in my days as a GIS manager, but also more focused on just the systems administration side of things. The kind of queries I used to get from IT people “but what does this system do?” … Continue reading The Systems Administrator’s Toolkit