Latest Contributions by CodyBenkelman

hi Anthony We've done some internal testing but can't reproduce this, and we've never seen or heard of this from other users.  Have you seen this with other datasets?   Can you send us your DSM and DTM?  Either that and/or send us some of your source images?  I'll send you a direct message so you have my email.   If the files are too large, we could do some testing with subsets (clipped area of interest) from the DSM and DTM.  If the data is proprietary, we'll keep it confidential within Esri.  But if it's highly sensitive and you can't share it, we'll have to pursue other methods to find the problem. Thanks Cody B   ... View more

Jon It sounds like you have your Source and Derived configured the way I would recommend - my only thought re: wrong source OVR image coming to foreground is that it might depend on exactly where your map is centered at the problematic zoom level.  Have you built footprints for the OVRs?  That might be a bit tricky - in the Source MDs I think it will skip those where Category is not Primary, but once you ingest into Derived it may be slow to build footprints.  (I can't honestly recall if the BuildFootprints tool can skip all with existing footprints, therefore building ONLY for the Source OVRs now tagged as Primary.).   The assignment of Category depends on context and desired behavior, but in this scenario I would leave them as automatically configured e.g. what were Source OVRs are now considered Primary in the Derived.  I don't believe you should have to edit any fields of the Attribute table in the Derived.  I would have thought that what you did should work properly so I'm not clear why it is not...  If I can think of other settings to change I'll respond again. Cody ... View more

Hi JM32 How are your overviews configured?  In this scenario we'd recommend you build overviews on the Source mosaics, and you'll have to ensure to copy appropriate fields to the overviews in the attribute table before ingesting them into the Derived mosaic.  Then do not build overviews on your Derived mosaic, and this should behave as expected.  Note this assumes you don't have a large number of Source MDs.  If you do, then you may have performance problems rendering multiple Source OVRs when zoomed out.  If that's the case, then you'd change what I said above, and DO create OVRs on the Derived at an appropriate scale where your users can understand "if you zoom out to here, you'll just see the standard view of the project area, NOT the most recent imagery (at very low resolution) in every sub-area".  At some reasonable zoom scale, the difference between image dates is presumably (?) not relevant.  Note for the "standard view of the project area" you could choose to use a Landsat or Sentinel-2 scene etc. - swap out a good synoptic view for OVRs composed from your individual datasets  If that doesn't make sense let us know.   Cody B ... View more

Can you tell us what Cool Hydrants and Cool Centers are? ... View more

Anthony Sorry nobody has replied.  I don't fully understand this - Is this a Drone2Map question?  D2M does not provide the ability to represent DSMs/DTMs as slope.  Are your screenshots generated in ArcGIS Pro or some other software?  Or did you create a slope function template in Pro and import it into Drone2Map?    If you can send your original DSM, DTM, and slope version of one or both it might help - but let us know how they were created. Cody B. ... View more

Jonathan no, Drone2Map only processes single frame images.  What would you hope the software would do with 360 images? Cody ... View more

Tara Fundamentally, the image matching performed by Drone2Map requires the ability to see features on the ground that are not moving - so unless the water is extremely calm and you can see the lake bottom clearly in each image (with no sky reflections or wavecrests) the block adjustment will fail since it is looking for fixed features. Your best approach may be to use the Image Collection directly, without block adjustment.  Contact me via email (see private message) Cody B.   ... View more

Hi Tara Sorry but would you mind starting a new post and explaining exactly what you're seeing?  This thread began 8 years ago, and the software has changed dramatically since that time.  Screenshots of your project would be helpful, if that doesn't reveal proprietary information.  If you have a lot of heavy canopy or water, the image correlation is fundamentally challenging.   Cody B.  ... View more

Cameron Several things appear wrong here.  It appears to be multispectral data but your spectral bands are in the wrong sequence for the RGB display, and you should not have seamlines in the default True Ortho output (unless you're intentionally using the Image Collection?).  Are you using an old version of Drone2Map Standard?  Current version is 2024.1.1. Also, I can't make out any blurring in the sample you sent.  Let us know what camera you are using, and if you can send us few of the source images.  I'll send you a direct message. Cody B.  ... View more

Hi Ramon I've been talking with Mark about your data - I'm sure we can make this work better.  I wanted to confirm that you are selecting all of your ground control points on the ground?  If you are surveying your own points with GPS, you can use control on tops of buildings - but when extracting control from the map note that the Z value comes from Esri's World Terrain which provides an estimate of the ground height, not including buildings.   Also, can you let us know how you are controlling your drone flight?  The flight line direction and spacing appear to be somewhat  variable - so if you have inconsistent overlap and a lot of buildings in the project area, this can also reduce accuracy. For future flights, if you have access to an iPad (and depending on the model of drone) I'd recommend you use our drone flight control app, ArcGIS Flight.  (See http://esriurl.com/ArcGISflight and also https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-flight-blog/arcgis-flight-supported-aircraft-and-cameras/ba-p/1502473?rsource=https:%2F%2Fesriurl.com%2Farcgis-flight-app-supported-drones ) Best wishes Cody   ... View more

Hello everyone. Esri's drone flight control appfor iPad was updated earlier this month.  The app has now been renamed "ArcGIS Flight" to emphasize compatibility with a range of ArcGIS applications, including Site Scan, Drone2Map, ArcGIS Reality, and ArcGIS Online. You can find this app by navigating to https://esriurl.com/ArcGISflight on your iPad Cody B.   ... View more

@RAMON_VERANO How are you combining the true orthos?  Are you using Drone2Map, ArcGIS Pro, or some other method? Cody B.  ... View more