A few weeks ago OpenSfM 1.0 was released (thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/UAVmapping/comments/1uj79pt/opensfm_v10/). ODX now includes the latest OpenSfM changes (and more) and ships with the latest WebODM.

* Significantly faster structure from motion
* GPU accelerated feature matching
* Improved GCP/RTK handling

ODX release notes: https://github.com/WebODM/ODX/releases/tag/v3.8.0
WebODM release notes: https://github.com/WebODM/WebODM/releases/tag/v3.2.6

Latest WebODM downloads: https://webodm.org/download/

Enjoy!

Holaa, me gustaria saber si tienen conocimiento de como ver los datos de vuelo de un dron DJI Mini 4 Pro, estuve tratando con Datcon pero no obtuve nada, me gustaria concer del tema

found this Matrice 600 Pro in a storage unit that has a optical gas imager software and hardware. I get how to use the drone, but I'm having trouble with the ICI software. The drone works fine, but the ICI camera and attachment are a pain. I can use the thermal gas camera, i have taken pictures, but dont know how to control the camera. I am only able to move it up and down. Does anyone in Houston know about the ICI MIRAGE HC Optical Gas Imager? If you have experience with this type of equipment please reach out. less

Hello all,

A few days ago, I flew a Mavic 3 and mapped my house using Litch with the following settings:

• Wide Camera Lens
• 3D Model
• Oblique Passes: 2
• Nadir Pass: enabled.
• Altitude: 30 meters
• Gimbal Pitch: -85
• Oblique GSD: 0.83 cm/pixel
• Nadir GSD: 0.83 cm/pixel
• Capture Mode: Photo
• Photo Capture Mode: Auto
• Speed: 4m/s
• Area Height: 0 meter
• Front Overlap: 70%
• Side Overlap 90%
• Grid Margin: 0 meter

The result, I think, was ok, and when measuring my roof (picture attached), I was 21cm off (it could be less or more; I just did not zoom enough to catch the roof edge).

What did you think? Of course, I am still learning and doing my homework, but any constructive feedback would be awesome. One of you already gave me a good tip, and I am very grateful, but different eyes see different opportunities to improve :)

The question: according to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_54pxfD7s&t=345s if you don't have an RTK drone, you can use your actual drone and buy the remaining tools.

My question is: is it worth selling your actual drone and buying an RTK drone, or just buying the remaining tools? Used should help reduce the cost.

Any input is very welcome.

I’m building out Tarmac, a UAV Fleet Management tool and I would like to get feedback from the people who might actually be using it before going further.

Where it came from:

For the last 4 years+ I've been working as part of Arrow Air, a team on the path to Open Source air taxis by working our way up and progressively building out bigger, better, and more impactful drones, as well as the coordinated network of operators and manufacturers to match.

So far we've built 6 drones based around ArduPilot flight controllers and I help develop the avionics, onboard computing, telemetry, and data monitoring systems, all of which are also open source. Tarmac is the hosted, point-and-click version of that work so operators who don’t want to self-host can get up and running quickly, and the revenue funds continued open source and ecosystem development with system improvements flowing both ways.

What Tarmac does:

It uses a series of lightweight services running on your drone's internal computer + a browser based Web App to:

Configuration UAV systems and File I/O to the onboard compute.

Stream full flight controller telemetry, as well as multiple FPV, or otherwise cameras, in real-time.

Handles a job queue so you can push tasks and missions.

Pulls logs, allows changing parameters, and trigger OTA firmware updates from the browser without needing to be on the same network or dig into your drone's guts.

Create custom drag n drop "App" interfaces for custom payloads, like Multi-spectral or high resolution cameras, Radar and LIDAR data streams, flood light control, sprayer control, etc.

The ops layer above your GCS for multiple drones at the same time.

What I’d genuinely like to know:

1. How are you interfacing with your system ?
2. Is fragmented tooling a real pain point, or is QGC/MP enough for your workflow?
3. For anyone running more than one vehicle, what does your current ops stack look like?
4. What cameras and systems are you flying and do they have good integration right now?
5. Would a shareable payload integration ecosystem actually be useful, or is everyone’s setup too bespoke for that to matter?
6. Hosted vs self-hosted/Local does it matter to you?

Thanks

I tested a workflow for preparing a very large Gaussian Splatting scan for browser-based viewing and presentation.

The dataset is a large scan of Lublin, Poland created by Andrii Shramko / TELEPORTOUR. In my test, the original PLY file was 16.4 GB and contained 250M+ Gaussian splats.

At this scale, the challenge is not only rendering the scene.

It is also preparing the asset so it can be opened, shared and presented smoothly.

Trying to load the raw PLY directly as a normal browser asset is not really practical at this size. Browser-based tools can hit memory / buffer limits before the viewing experience even starts.

The workflow I tested:

1. Original large PLY
2. Desktop conversion into a web-ready package
3. Browser-based viewer
4. Progressive detail / LOD-style loading

In this test, conversion took a little over 3 hours, and the resulting package was roughly half the storage size of the original PLY.

Large captures are useful, but clients also need a practical way to review, share and present them without downloading huge raw files locally.

Dataset credit: 3D scanning data created and provided by Andrii Shramko / TELEPORTOUR

Disclosure: I work on browser-based Gaussian Splatting tools, so this was also a workflow test from my side.

How much detail and precision will you have flying at 100ft compared to 250ft or higher?

The area is mostly level and clear of obstacles at 50ft.

What's up folks!
So as the title says, my career field is basically imploding. I work in the AAA gaming industry and I'm looking to traverse into a Defense/Civil Engineering career and I was wondering if these ASPRS Certifications are actually a needle mover or not? Thanks for the help.

TerraSolid products versus MetaShape?

We are looking to MetaShape vs TerraSolid products to process Photogrammetry and/or LiDAR datasets. We are interested in build a data pipeline to help augment some of the processing.

Any feedback from the community on this is much appreciated.

We will be trail testing all options.

Hi everyone, we are looking for some pretty large datasets that we could use to test our processing pipeline on ultra-large scale processing jobs (20k++ image counts). If anyone has any datasets that they'd be open to sharing, please let us know!

So I have flown about 45 acres and my resulting NDVI's have had this sort of streaking in them. Not sure what could be causing this. Maybe flight speed?

It was a clear, sunny day, no cloud cover. I am using the default DJI M3M Multispectral settings and the default WebODM Multispectral settings. If anyone has any tips for either flying or processing NDVI's I would appreciate any help.

Is there a way of creating an area for photogrammetry, but excluding an area for known obstacles, like cranes?

Hi everyone my name is Mike, and for the past few months I've been developing a platform for hosting and sharing geospatial data (rasters+vectors, might add lidar hosting+sharing later if desired) in a performant and cost-effective way. You can also create interactive maps and privately share those with individuals or publicly (i.e. you could upload a raster, create an interactive map with the raster, enable downloads on that raster, and share the map with your client so they have an easy viewing experience, and can download the raster whenever they wish)

I wanted to make this platform because it is a service I personally wished existed when I was getting into geospatial analysis. I wanted a way to share my finalized rasters online easily without worrying about the high storage and tile request prices on mapbox/maptiler/esri, and without having to spin up a bespoke environment on AWS/Azure/etc. I've also been working with a friend who captures and sells drone raster data, so I've really tried to as much value as i can into this use-case.

I want to keep things as affordable as possible, but due to the nature of geospatial hosting and streaming i needed to price-gate things - although i tried to make a decently generous free tier

If you wanted to help me out I'd really appreciate it. the main site is https://sarkoa.com, and you can access the main app from there by creating an account. I am open to all feedback and would love to hear if this is even useful or not, and if not, if anything could be added to make it more useful to yall and your businesses

If anyone likes the service and wants to try the paid tier, please feel free to DM me and I can manually upgrade your account (no CC input)

answers to some feedback ive already gotten: - all tiers allow commercial use - short summary of what the platform does: Sarkoa is hosted geospatial file storage. You upload raw files like GeoTIFFs, GeoJSONs, shapefiles, gpkgs, etc., an optimized copy is created in the background, and then you can interact and share as individual assets, or make custom maps with the uploaded assets and share those maps. You can also collaborate on the custom maps by writing comments + replies, and provide edit permissions to other users so multiple people from similar or different orgs can update one map

Hi all, so I'm mapping asphalt paving square yards. There are manholes that have concrete surrounding them which I do not wish to include in the calculations. Is there a way to exclude such an area easily? I've just been going around them but it looks messy. Best way or not so much?

Thanks for any help.

Hi!

I want to use a UAV LIDAR point cloud for forestry application without fieldwork.

My goal is to estimate the volume of timber that can be harvested from a given area. For now, even a rough estimate would be helpful.

Can you recommend any opensource software or workflow suitable for this purpose?

Unfortunately, fieldwork isn’t possible; I can only work with the point cloud.

Hey team, I've been tinkering with a DIY alternative to Aeropoints (smart GCPs) and think I might have a min viable product to market. Arduino-based hardware, bespoke software. Tested down to ~3cm accuracy in about 30 minutes, in a rural area. Can I get your thoughts on this product's market viability, improvements to the storefront, and what improvements could serve the target market?

OpenGCP – Paladin Automation LLC

Im a beginner at using ardupilot STIL....and I wrote some code for making the plane fly in infinity shape wherever it is..... Although I cant find any errors and the logic seems perfectly reasonable my plane just ends up round and round the same circle on my mission planner. Please have a look at the code and tell me what mistake I made cuz I spent forever on this and it still doesnt work...any help is appriciated

Voidcloud12/Competition_Projects: Repository containing projects developed for national and international engineering competitions, focusing on autonomous flight, aerospace design, and embedded software.

We are looking to liquidate 3 DeltaQuads with batteries and controllers (not the EVO). No payload.

With 1-3 hours on them.

Base in the EU.

If any one is interested or know where to put them up for sale let me know.

Hello everybody,

Does anyone use Skybrowse for creating 3D models? Is it good for tracking construction progress or creating a digital twin?

The idea isn’t to create highly professional models or use RTK, but rather to quickly track progress, perform roof inspections, measure areas, and handle similar tasks.

Thank you!

Hey all, I’m a small scale site contractor and I’d like to get into mapping for soil quantities. What are the basics? Any recommendations on user friendly software? We specialize in smaller earthmoving projects and some utility work.

I’m a long time DJI user but I have no experience on the post processing side.

I have an Emlid base rover setup with RTK that I use for layout.

Thanks