Category: UAS

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

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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3D, Bundler, Drone, Photogrammetry, PMVS, UAS

Getting Bundler and friends running — part deux

In my previous post on Getting Bundler and friends running, I suggested how to modify an existing script to get Bundler and other structure from motion parts/pieces up and running.  Here’s my follow up. Install Vagrant and VirtualBox. Download (or clone) this repo: https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/odm-vagrant Navigate into the cloned or unzipped directory (on the command line), run vagrant up Go have a cup of coffee. Come … Continue reading Getting Bundler and friends running — part deux

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3D, Bundler, Drone, Photogrammetry, PMVS, UAS

Getting Bundler and friends running

Anyone who has jumped down the rabbit hole of computer vision has run into dependency h*ll getting software to run.  I jumped down that hole again today with great success that I don’t want to forget (these directions are for Ubuntu, fyi). First, clone BundlerTools: https://github.com/qwesda/BundlerTools This will download and compile (almost) everything for you, which is a wonderful thing.  The one exception is graclus.  … Continue reading Getting Bundler and friends running

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3D, Drone, Image Processing, Optics, Photogrammetry, UAS

Inventorying linear assets– really high resolution orthos

I have been contemplating all sorts of varied uses of Structure from Motion techniques. One of those outputs, in addition to using sUAVs (drones) is just to orthorectify and generate 3D meshes from ordinary photos. This has really great potential for linear assets like streams and rivers, trails and roads. We’ll have to being to contemplate how we’ll use (and summarize!) the incredible amount of … Continue reading Inventorying linear assets– really high resolution orthos

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Short follow up: Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds

In my previous post, https://smathermather.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/big-dmn-post-photogrammetrically-derived-point-clouds/, I briefly cover software for creating photogrammetrically derived point clouds.  I didn’t summarize, like this, but PDPCs can be created in three easy steps: Structure from Motion for unordered image collections Clustering Views for Multi-view Stereo Multi-view stereo (dense point cloud reconstruction) But, unfairly, I gloss over some of the complications of creating meaningful data from PDPC processing. Truth told, … Continue reading Short follow up: Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds

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Big d@mn post: Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds

I chatted with Howard Butler (@howardbutler) today about a project he’s working on with Uday Verma (@udayverma @udaykverma) called Greyhound (https://github.com/hobu/greyhound) a pointcloud querying and streaming framework over websockets for the web and your native apps. It’s a really promising project, and I hope to kick the tires of it really soon. The conversation inspired this post, which I’ve been meaning to do for a … Continue reading Big d@mn post: Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds

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3D, Analysis, Database, Drone, Other, Photogrammetry, PostGIS, PostgreSQL, SQL, UAS

2.5D TINs in PostGIS

(edited: changed TIN to TIN Z) (edited again — function already exists as a flag in ST_DelaunayTriangles… .) Uh, I wrote a function for nothin’… As Regina points out in the commments, this functionality was rolled into 2.1 with a flag. Her example: For the record, my code is about 2% slower on a dataset that takes ~50minutes to triangulate . —————————————— Original Post —————————————— … Continue reading 2.5D TINs in PostGIS

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3D, Analysis, Database, Drone, Image Processing, Optics, Other, Photogrammetry, PostGIS, PostgreSQL, QGIS, SFCGAL, SQL, UAS

UAS (drone) Footprint Geometries Calculated in PostGIS with SFCGAL — for real this time

In my earlier post, I made a claim that SFCGAL was used in this figure: It dawned on my afterwards, while I was using 3D, I hadn’t actually employed any of the analysis goodies that come with SFCGAL.  Well, here it is– a footprint as calculated using the view angles and a real terrain model: Here it is compared with the initial calculation: Continue reading UAS (drone) Footprint Geometries Calculated in PostGIS with SFCGAL — for real this time

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