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Had a couple of clients ask for 3-5ha of land to be flown over to get a full lay of the land using the drone.
I figured, sure, this can't be too hard in photoshop with as many photo's of the area as I can take in a few batteries in some sort of zig zag, up and down pattern with the camera facing the same direction and down at the floor etc and then stitching them all together (all the while thinking [Language Removed], this is going to be loooong")
Joined here yesterday having spent a few hours trawling the internet to find some sort of program to use to stitch all these images together.
I found loads of them, the top few I tried with little success in getting the result I wanted, well, at least with ease.
Found a thread talking about Image Composite Editor, gave it try with some of the photo's, it worked, but not so great.
It was about 9pm last night when I figured, sure, there's just enough day light outside to try a quick video on the farm and then put that through the video stitcher in ICE and see what the result was like...
Pretty good, but only 1 up and 1 down pass, over 200mtr2
Gave it a proper test today, several passes over about 3ha of land covered at 50mtrs agl.
This was just a test fight to see if the program could handle it, the land goes on for another 3ha!
I had about 5 minutes of battery left when I had finished the passes, videos is 9:32 long.
Made the pc work a little bit, but nothing to strenuous. Maybe 15 minutes at 60-70% load on the cpu.
Here's the Zoomed out (with a water mark) 4702x7062 at 11mb
Zoomed in (also with water mark!)
I am super happy, looking forward to getting the final video shot and the whole plot in 1 nice massive sized photo.
Super easy, super happy (hope you love them full sized photo's!)
Thanks a lot
Peace
I figured, sure, this can't be too hard in photoshop with as many photo's of the area as I can take in a few batteries in some sort of zig zag, up and down pattern with the camera facing the same direction and down at the floor etc and then stitching them all together (all the while thinking [Language Removed], this is going to be loooong")
Joined here yesterday having spent a few hours trawling the internet to find some sort of program to use to stitch all these images together.
I found loads of them, the top few I tried with little success in getting the result I wanted, well, at least with ease.
Found a thread talking about Image Composite Editor, gave it try with some of the photo's, it worked, but not so great.
It was about 9pm last night when I figured, sure, there's just enough day light outside to try a quick video on the farm and then put that through the video stitcher in ICE and see what the result was like...
Pretty good, but only 1 up and 1 down pass, over 200mtr2
Gave it a proper test today, several passes over about 3ha of land covered at 50mtrs agl.
This was just a test fight to see if the program could handle it, the land goes on for another 3ha!
I had about 5 minutes of battery left when I had finished the passes, videos is 9:32 long.
Made the pc work a little bit, but nothing to strenuous. Maybe 15 minutes at 60-70% load on the cpu.
Here's the Zoomed out (with a water mark) 4702x7062 at 11mb
Zoomed in (also with water mark!)
I am super happy, looking forward to getting the final video shot and the whole plot in 1 nice massive sized photo.
Super easy, super happy (hope you love them full sized photo's!)
Thanks a lot
Peace
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