That was DroneDeploy for the flight planning and doing the actual flying and image acquisition and Agisoft Metashape for the image stitching.Can I ask what mapping app you used for this?
That was DroneDeploy for the flight planning and doing the actual flying and image acquisition and Agisoft Metashape for the image stitching.Can I ask what mapping app you used for this?
I would try to get 50% overlap and then if you end up short then you’ll still be ok.Using the onscreen grid line as a guide, do you think an overlap of 1/3 between the consecutive pictures in the first raw; and then an overlap of 1/3 between rows and columns in the next raw (s) would be enough? That would make shooting a little easier. For a 3X2 pano for example, this overlapping by a third technique will give us 6 pictures with overlaps like this (excuse the crude drawing; numbers designate sequence of shooting, shaded areas represent overlapping areas between pictures)
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MapsMadeEasy (It's free), or just fly it manually and stitch with any number of free stitching programs. Don't hit the tower cranes!If you wanted to stitch together a six panel pano shooting straight down, how would you go about doing it? M2P.
I have a request from a client who wants an aerial shot of a construction site looking straight down onto the property. But because I am in a Class D airspace near the local airport I can only fly to an elevation of 100'. But at one hundred feet I can only get about 1/6 of the project into a single frame. So I was thinking about trying to stitch together six frames but I have no idea of how to go about lining up the drone and over lapping each frame by 30% so that either LR or PS can stitch them together.
Your thoughts?
I got confused while reading this thread and other online information. Some online information says that if I have a Mavic 2, and I point the gimbal straight down, and then tell the drone to take a "Horizontal Panorama" then it should be able to do all the work for me and take the 3x3 grid for me. The middle frame will be where the gimbal starts.
Is this wrong?
My Mavic 2 is on the way to me, so I can't try it out myself.
It's a simple matter to manually fly the drone and shoot overlapping images for small areas.Is there any other options that could get the Mavic 2 to shoot Pano looking down.
You've painted yourself into a corner with the Crystalsky and Litchi isn't a mapping app.I use the crystal sky so haven't tried to see if you can use mapping apps (such as litchi etc)
If you are just doing a couple of acres, you can do it manually without much trouble.Meta4, I was hoping of a solution that is more automated as opposed to manually flying. Like I did with the Mavic 1 on panoramic mode.
Crystalsky doesn't accept loading 3rd party apps.What do you mean painted myself into a corner with crystal sky?
The panorama function works with the camera staying in the same position and tilting and panning to cover the subject.Okay thanks for your reply meta 4.
Actually I don't need to map out a site anywhere near 5 acres.
I'm just after getting a full birdseye view of a property which doesnt fit the composition of the maximum height of my drone.
I was hoping a horizontal 3X3 panorama shot with the gimbal looking down would do the job but everytime I tilt the camera down and take the Pano shot, the camera automatically moves to horizontal position.
In theory if the Pano shot looking down stays looking down and the 3X3 Pano works without moving horizontal then the whole property will fit.
Am I missing or doing something wrong?
I remembered with the Mavic 1, if you tilted the camera looking down and set the panoramic shot, it would take the shots based on where your camera was facing.
Thanks for your reply Meta4.The panorama function works with the camera staying in the same position and tilting and panning to cover the subject.
You cannot use the built-in automated panorama function for what you want.The problem is when it's initially facing down above the property and I click to take the 3X3 Pano shot. The camera moves up to face horizontally for the first shot as opposed to starting the shot looking directly down.
Which is why I'm wondering why it does that for the Mavic 2 and not didn't for the Mavic 1?
I have done it several times with the Mavic 1 using the built in Pano function and shoot looking down.You cannot use the built-in automated panorama function for what you want.
You will have to manually fly the drone over/across the site with the camera pointed downwards to capture the images.
I don't have a Mavic 1 but I'm pretty sure it fly a pattern to capture downward images.
I think he really just wants a pano with the center being 90 degrees down. Seems more like an issue of getting Photoshop to stitch that together correctly than anything. He doesn’t need to move the AC to get what he wants.You cannot use the built-in automated panorama function for what you want.
You will have to manually fly the drone over/across the site with the camera pointed downwards to capture the images.
I don't have a Mavic 1 but I'm pretty sure it fly a pattern to capture downward images.
So just do a 360 pano and delete the photos that are out of the frame you want or as as @Meta4 said just do it manually and know that more photos is better, try to get like 90% overlap and then you can’t miss.Yes, just a simple panorama with the camera tilting 90degrees down to shoot a property that just is a little too large to fit in one composition with the max height of the drone.
Have done this with a Mavic pro and pro platinum when I was using that by what was stated above and would have assumed the Mavic 2 would be exactly the same. However, I have come across this issue of the camera always pointing horizontal when executing the simple Pano.
The Photoshop stitching is no problem if I have the shots I need. Or can use Microsoft composite image editor for this basic task. The main thing is just getting the drone to behave as I hoped it would be shooting the shots facing 90degrees down and taking the respective shots under the built in Pano function.
Thought I was missing some settings or doing something wrong with Mavic 2, hence why seeking some advise on more experienced users who may have possibly come across this.
The mapping is more than what I am after and the manual drone flying is the last case scenario, but was hoping to achieve the more automated simple built in Pano function like how it was with the Mavic pro/pro platinum.
Appreciate all the input so far though.
Is this a situation where 6-12 photos would easily capture the entire scene but would not stitch because of perspective shift but 300 photos minimize the shift with tons of overlaps? 300 photos into 1 is certainly not practical unless you're getting paid a fortune per photo.That's definitely not the way to do it and moving the drone won't prevent proper stitching.
Here is a part of a composite image of a 30 acre site.
The full image was created by stitching 300 individual images (with big overlaps), collected by flying the drone all over the site in a grid pattern,looking straight down.