When will full orthophoto processing and production be available in Sitescan INCLUDING GROUND CONTROL POINT PROCESSING? That is the primary thing that I want to do in Sitescan that I can't currently do. I have a mavic Enterprise 3M with RTK capability. Every flight I collect RGB and MS images for ortho production, because why wouldn't I, if my drone can do it? But I can't process the multispectral images with GCP's. And the only reason I can process them at all is because of the RTK. Amazingly they come out pretty close because of that, but if I can add GCP's that will eliminate the approximately 1-foot shift that remains.
This drone captures 1 RGB image and 4 MS images for every shutter snap. The 4 MS images when composited comprise a 4-band MS image. It captures Green, Red, Red edge, and NIR. The image attached shows a park in the city I work for. That image is the end result of 2,544 raw images because I flew fairly low. But even though you can't see it as this scale, it has an image shift of maybe 1-foot.
I'm frustrated because I want one software solution that can process both, and if Sitescan can't do it, I'm going to have to switch to pix4d or something, because I can't justify multiple software solutions for drone image processing, however much I might want to. So while features like pavement condition evaluation is really cool, please know that the absolute number 1 thing missing in Sitescan in my opinion is GCP processing for MS tiff images. I just want to make CIR orthos!
Thank you for enduring my rant. I promise I'm actually a nice person.
