We have a licensed 107 pilot and used the new Pics to Pixels in Global Mapper to create this lovely cloud.?ÿ I was a little low for some of the trees, so next flight I think I will blast the whole site at ~350' AGL then run around 125'-150' AGL for the detail.
I have a little QAQC to run (my Global Mapper license is at the office) but I extracted the features with my home license of Carlson Point Cloud and the contours came out looking just fine.
Exciting times.
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Very Nice.
My son has a cheaper drone and loves flying it.?ÿ ?ÿOne time he was flying and it went up too much and a crosswind pushed it away and lost control of it.?ÿ ?ÿMy son is screaming at the top of his lungs and crying and I am keeping a bed on the direction it flew.?ÿ ?ÿSuckers move pretty fast.?ÿ ?ÿWe head out to go find it.?ÿ ?ÿSince I kept a good bearing on where it went I knew the path, but not the distance.?ÿ ?ÿSo we look for it and almost gave up.?ÿ ?ÿLuckily it was close to dusk and I told my son to sit on this ledge and scout out.?ÿ ?ÿSure enough the batteries lasted long enough to see the lights.?ÿ ?ÿHe was sure happy.?ÿ ?ÿI really wish I had the time and money to get into this awesome area.?ÿ ?ÿMaybe one day.
That's interesting. Will the Global Mapper Lidar module w/Pix 2 Pixels do pretty much all that you need for drone flights?
I did a part 107 prep course for the biggest part of my cont ed this year, looking forward to taking the test. I plan buy a Phantom 4 pro this week before the end of the year for taxes.
One of the things that appeared to be cost prohibitive was the software, but if the GM LIdar module will do it, I can stand the $499 upgrade, maybe this year too!
I'll have to try out Pixel to Points from Mobal Mapper. I have v18 w/ Lidar so it'll cost me the $450 to get v19 w/ P2P?
Is the processing time any faster than Pix4D?
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Umm... how long does a Pix4d processing take??ÿ I have the freebie subscription to Drone Deploy which takes 2.5 times more than the paid subscription.?ÿ I would expect this project to take 8 hours with that service (estimated at 3 hours with the subscription).
I ran Global Mapper on the monster of our office and it took a few to several hours.?ÿ I tried a few things with the imagery and one of the options took over a day.
I bought the drone in September.?ÿ I was about to sign up for Drone Deploy or PixElement or Pix4d when Global Mapper came out with the Pix 2 Points.?ÿ It was definitely worth trying.?ÿ I don't mind locking up a machine every night as long as I do not have too many projects at once.?ÿ Too bad my 107 is away for the holidays...
Umm... how long does a Pix4d processing take??ÿ I have the freebie subscription to Drone Deploy which takes 2.5 times more than the paid subscription.?ÿ I would expect this project to take 8 hours with that service (estimated at 3 hours with the subscription).
I ran Global Mapper on the monster of our office and it took a few to several hours.?ÿ I tried a few things with the imagery and one of the options took over a day.
I bought the drone in September.?ÿ I was about to sign up for Drone Deploy or PixElement or Pix4d when Global Mapper came out with the Pix 2 Points.?ÿ It was definitely worth trying.?ÿ I don't mind locking up a machine every night as long as I do not have too many projects at once.?ÿ Too bad my 107 is away for the holidays...
How many photos? Pix4D has the 3 step processing. Can enable or disable lot's of features such as point cloud, textured mesh, classification, DTM, OBJ, FBK, PLY, DSM, GeoTIFF Ortho, Contours DXF, etc.
I have Global Mapper and have yet to use the pixels to points tool yet, but I did watch their demo. I'm wondering how well it handles big data sets. My last project had 1,300+ photos. I processed it with AgiSoft Photoscan Pro which has an add on that allows you to break the project into chunks to process large data sets. Global Mapper seems to handle this by reducing the resolution of the source imagery until it is small enough for your computer to handle it. I figure that would have to degrade the accuracy of point cloud.
No not the proper way to use Pix4d. Reduced photo does degrade GSD quality. A Pix4d perpetual license allows owner to install onto two PC's. You can process as two separate projects, then merge later.
Context Capture will process using multiple computers on a network. A network farm, but you need to purchase the render engine for each PC.
No not the proper way to use Pix4d. Reduced photo does degrade GSD quality. A Pix4d perpetual license allows owner to install onto two PC's. You can process as two separate projects, then merge later.
Context Capture will process using multiple computers on a network. A network farm, but you need to purchase the render engine for each PC.
AgiSoft Photoscan has a Python script that allows you to break up the project into manageable chunks to process the dense cloud and then it merges all the chunks at the end to make a seamless point cloud. The last big project I did, I broke it up into roughly 500'x500' chunks and it worked well for my particular setup.
That's a good feature.
Can you run AgiSoft on multiple PC' s under the same EULA?
That's a good feature.
Can you run AgiSoft on multiple PC' s under the same EULA?
Yeah, my computer chokes somewhere between 200-300 photos on the dense point cloud processing. So, any project over that, I use their chunking script. Basically, you just tell it how many rows and columns that you want to break the project into and then just let it run. I think by breaking up the project into grid sectors, it only has to deal with the photos that look into that particular sector at one time. Then its just a matter of iteration and merge at the end. ?ÿ
The standalone license is node locked to one computer, but they do offer floating licenses as well.
I just saw Dave Carlson who said they are about to release some partnership between Carlson and Pixelement.?ÿ The server based processing can't have a problem with size.?ÿ I think I will be running a project soon and I can try overloading the photos to see what global mapper does.?ÿ I will process it on a dual Xeon, 20 cores, 3.7ghz, 64gb reg. Ram, nvidia Quattro 8gb video system which should make some difference on the processing time.
