Developer Comment by Max Levine on March 19, 2012 at 9:44am

Is there any room left for beta testers ? 

Comment by Rigel on March 20, 2012 at 1:41am

JP, you rock man.  Great work.  The mosaic only feature based on images alone is already a great plus.  Not every project calls for precision orthorectified imagery.

Keep at it!

Comment by JP on March 20, 2012 at 10:47am

Thanks for all the help and bug fixes Rigel!

Comment by Martin Bellomo on March 20, 2012 at 11:45am

I want to test DM with my Flights, we use an airplane with several sensors and have a log file wich asociates images with the rest of the data.

At this moment i cant register on the website. It tells me that i need to login to access..

Comment by Alpo Hassinen on March 27, 2012 at 5:02am

Does this program make good mosaics from forests?

There are hundreds of trees, and they look quite similar. We must fly at low altitude (<150m), and same tree seems to be totally different in two picture. (Even if we try to make 60 - 70% overlap.)

We have tested several programs, but all of them have had difficulties, and no one has georeferenced all pictures.

Here is one example: from 218 pictures only 113 are set to right place. (Area should continue to southeast.)

Comment by JP on March 27, 2012 at 6:59am

@Alpo thanks for the question, the dronemapper system definitely has trouble sometimes on forested areas but depending on the amount of control points it finds it could do well. If you are interested I can get you a test account setup and you can try uploading a sample in 'mosaic mode' or with an attached flight log. :)

Comment by Krzysztof Bosak on March 27, 2012 at 7:00am

At the moment there are many details to be solved even on some basic terrains, while others work smoothly.

Theoretically it should be immune to optical problems since it is only projecting IMU and GPS, then smoothing. In practice there are many issues being investigated, so I am encouraging you to simply try it.

I woulnd't try uniform patterns with less than 80% overlap, this is why Pteryx has such a tremendous endurance.

It was designed because EasyUAV had problems with certain areas, even flat fields, so the requirement for overlap was equivalent to requirement for endurance, given limited max ceiling.

Is 150m a law limitation? If so, I would even restrict angle of view (zoom in), it requires even tighter legs but makes optical matching more reliable.

Comment by JP on March 31, 2012 at 5:39am

@kb thanks, can you offer some suggestions for improvement of the site? how did you make the Pteryx have such tremendous endurance? yes, you are right -- there are a lot of issues to work out. :)

@alpo I am processing your imagery now. thanks, keep you posed. JP

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