It is with sadness I leave the OSGeo Community Sprint. Folks will be continuing to do great work all week, so stay tuned for those updates elsewhere. It’s been a busy year travel-wise and it’s time to get back to the family. This was a bit of a homecoming for me, seeing all sorts of folks I haven’t seen in a while, including some of … Continue reading #OSGeo Community Sprints
(Reposted from OpenDroneMap.org) Code/community sprints are a fascinating energy. Below, we can see a bunch of folks laboring away at laptops scattered through the room at the OSGeo’s 2019 Community Sprint, an exercise in a fascinating dance of introversion and extroversion, of code development and community collaboration. A portion of the OpenDroneMap team is here for a bit working away at some interesting opportunities. Tonight, … Continue reading Parallel Shells: distributing split-merge with ClusterODM #OSGeo
(Originally posted at OpenDroneMap Blog) Origins OpenDroneMap has an origins story rooted in a joke: While the last decade has been dominated by the growing hegemony of the global base map, mapping will swing now for a while towards the principle of mapping the world, one organic pixel at a time. 2014 is the beginning of artisanal satellite mapping, where we discover the value in 1-inch pixels from … Continue reading NodeMICMAC – a new WebODM Node
Most of our blog posts on OpenDroneMap are meant for interested users. Every now and then we have a gem for our contributors / power users who like to dive into the code a bit and enhance things. For any of you who have done this, or have wanted to do this in the past… via Someone has to deal with it and who you gonna … Continue reading Someone has to deal with it and who you gonna call? — OpenDroneMap
For anyone using OpenDroneMap to process really large datasets, some good news came through early last year with improvements to how OpenSfM handles large datasets. This came in the form of an innovative, first of it’s kind, hybrid SfM method which combines the better attributes of global and incremental SfM approaches. TLDR: This helps make processing… via Split-merge nearing completion — OpenDroneMap Continue reading Split-merge nearing completion — OpenDroneMap
Hello from Musanze, Rwanda, a short 10 km from one of two remaining populations of Mountain Gorillas where I’ve spent the last couple of weeks with Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and students from University of Rwanda helping with important research in support of gorillas and biodiversity in the Virunga Massif. But, this post is not about these things (more on these later) but a … Continue reading More code is like more cowbell — OSGeo Community Sprint
One of the problems we worked on in Kerala wasn’t a drone problem at all, but an infrastructure problem. Given a distribution of locales, how can we cluster those according to distance to help reduced duplicated infrastructure services (internet, electricity, etc.)? There are lots of ways to solve this, but we chose to do it in PostGIS because… Ok: because that’s what I always often do … Continue reading Keralite Klusters
It has been a busy few weeks of travel for me. With a short trip to Unmanned Vehicle Systems Oman (UVS-Oman) behind me, I had the pleasure of continuing on to Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India to work on more unmanned vehicle problems. You may recall from 2018 a trip that Frederick Mbuya and I took at the outset of drone program development for the International Center … Continue reading From the Sultanate to the Keralites
Five days is too short a time to spend with my colleagues in Oman, whether Professor Hadj, Dr. Amur, Dr. Ibrahim, Dr. Rashid, Dr. Riadh, Dr. Nasra, or my fellow conference presenters and attendees who were my constant company. And I apologize if I have forgotten anyone — it was a busy and short week, and I was overwhelmed by your warmth and hospitality. One … Continue reading UVS-Oman, Photolog
The first annual Unmanned Vehicle Systems Oman recently finished in Muscat and was by all counts a success. It was a small but potent conference (which is an important combo for ambitious firsts), the hosting was quite exemplary, the space (the campus of Sultan Qaboos University) exquisite, and the talks were a wonderful stretch for me both into areas I don’t think much about, like controller design … Continue reading The first UVS Oman
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