Category: OpenDroneMap

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OpenDroneMap — Improvements  Needed

Talking about the future sometimes requires critiquing the present. The wonderful thing about an open source project is we can be quite open about limitations, and discuss ways forward. OpenDroneMap is a really interesting and captivating project… and there’s more work to do. To understand what work needs done, we need to understand OpenDroneMap / structure from motion in general. Some of the limitations endemic … Continue reading OpenDroneMap — Improvements  Needed

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3D, OpenDroneMap

Humanitarian UAV Experts Meeting — first blush.

UAViators, MIT Lincoln Labs, UNOCHA, and others organized and hosted the UAViators Experts Meeting on MIT’s campus this weekend. It was a remarkable event, if only for the thoughtfulness and knowledge base of the people in the room. The meeting brought together UAV operators, manufacturers, humanitarians, and a few folks at the intersection of these. For me, it was relevatory with respect to all the … Continue reading Humanitarian UAV Experts Meeting — first blush.

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3D, Bundler, Camera Calibration, FOSS4G, Image Processing, OpenDroneMap, OpenDroneMap, Optics, Photogrammetry, PMVS

MSF Canada Drone Day follow-up

Dirk’s MSF Canada Drone Day is officially the first blog post I have “re-blogged”. Please read: https://smathermather.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/msf-canada-drone-day/ or better yet here: http://dirkgorissen.com/2015/07/14/msf-canada-drone-day/ I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Dirk and Ivan, and the rest is well covered in Dirk’s post. It came together as an excellent day and I think you would be hard pressed to have had a better introduction to drones. The … Continue reading MSF Canada Drone Day follow-up

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ICCM — International Conference of Crisis Mappers

The mark of a great conference is one that not only is well run and orchestrated, interesting from a content perspective, and full of bright minds, but also one that experiments with elements of interactions to maximize the value delivered to attendees. By these measures, the International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) succeeds. Normally, I struggle with the call to attend sessions vs. the conference … Continue reading ICCM — International Conference of Crisis Mappers

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OpenDroneMap — Art and Science

I consider myself an artist and scientist. I’ll confess I have let the art go fallow some in recent years, but these are two sides of one coin. If you like either, and especially if you like both, you should check out Tobias Research. I met Michele at FOSS4G, where from the moment she saw my presentation on OpenDroneMap to using it to create a … Continue reading OpenDroneMap — Art and Science

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Announcing OpenDroneMap — Software for civilian (and humanitarian?) UAS post processing

This past Friday at FOSS4G in Portland, I announced the (early) release of OpenDroneMap, a software toolchain for civilian (and humanitarian?) UAS/UAV image processing. The software is currently a simple fork of https://github.com/qwesda/BundlerTools, and will process from unreferenced overlapping photos to an unreferenced point cloud. Directions are included in the repo to create a mesh and UV textured mesh as the subsequent steps, but the … Continue reading Announcing OpenDroneMap — Software for civilian (and humanitarian?) UAS post processing

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