A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of visiting with Piero Toffanin in Florida and had 4 days of eating, talking, and drinking espresso. OpenDroneMap was much of the conversation, but we wandered a lot conversationally, caught up a lot, and had a great time. We even found some time to fly drones. (Random […]| OpenDroneMap™
I’m proud to to announce that as of last week, our esteemed community member, long-time contributor and all-around champion of open source Saijin_Naib has become the first non-developer paid contributor to be sponsored by UAV4GEO. He’s no stranger to OpenDroneMap. He has been involved with the project for a long time and has demonstrated incredible […]| OpenDroneMap™
ODM 3.0, the leading open-source drone mapping engine, has been released! This release has focused on improving output quality, removing some legacy parameters and fixing long-standing issues with the software. You can check the change log to see what has been removed. If your scripts use legacy parameters, they will be ignored and you will […]| OpenDroneMap™
Find-GCP is a program that detects ArUco markers in digital photos and is able to create OpenDroneMap ground control points files automatically. The project has been utilized by members of our community for a long time and has provided means to automate ground control point detection workflows using commodity hardware. Kudos to the GeoForAll Lab […]| OpenDroneMap™
We strive to make ODM as fast as possible. GPUs are very good at performing parallel calculations on blocks of data. While they can’t be employed at every stage of the pipeline, they can help in several areas. GPU-based features extraction has been in ODM for a while (if you ventured to use the opendronemap/odm:gpu […]| OpenDroneMap™
OpenDroneMap is now compatible with the Apple M1 (no, not with this arm). The community came together to fund this feat. Thanks to everyone that contributed! What was challenging about this? Apple M1 speaks a different language than Intel chips (the mainstream chips that most people’s computers have). This language is a dialect of ARM. […]| OpenDroneMap™
One of the cool things about open source software is that it has a tendency to eventually run everywhere. If you have the source code available and certain constraints allow it, with sufficient time a port can be made to different platforms. This is not always the case with proprietary software, where the vendor decides […]| OpenDroneMap™
This is a guest post authored by Zoltán Siki, the creator of the awesome Find-GCP project. Have you tried to create the gcp_list.txt file for a project with hundreds of images? It is a time-consuming and boring task to find each Ground Control Point (GCP) in 6-10 images and the chance of misidentification are high. […]| OpenDroneMap™
Chapter 1. Ghosts If there’s something strange, in your multispectral dataset, who you gonna call? Well, the OpenDroneMap community obviously! Whenever ghosting occurs, the problem is related to band alignment. In multispectral datasets, sensors such as the Sentera 6x, take multiple pictures at once using different cameras, each capable of capturing a different part of […]| OpenDroneMap™
That title might be clickbait, but it is meant as a nod to the feature parity that has been long in the making between OpenDroneMap relative to more mature projects, whether those more mature projects are the venerable, free and open source MICMAC or its derivatives in the form of the various closed-source offerings in […]| OpenDroneMap™