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General / What is the work flow to process RTK uav imagery?

« on: September 13, 2025, 06:35:35 PM »

Generally, what is the process to run rtk imagery in Metashape? I work with rtk data all the time but usually end up just disabling it to work with the gcps, which is better anwyays. BUT it would be nice to know how to use the rtk data from the drone, whats the point of using it anyways? Can someone explain how to do this? A lot of times after I bring the gcps into the RTK data, the gcps are still way off. I know the rtk images are more accurate than that.

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General / Re: How to set up network processing

« on: August 14, 2025, 01:13:36 AM »

The worker is connected, the host is connected. I have the photos and the project saved to the root folder. It still will not process anything. What else do i need to do?

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General / How to set up network processing

« on: August 13, 2025, 11:48:00 PM »

I have done this before in the past but I cannot figure out how to do it again. How do I set network processing up in the newest version?

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General / Processing Hung up

« on: July 05, 2025, 04:52:01 AM »

I am having issues with the newest version of Metashape. I am trying to process a job with less than 500 images and it is stuck on generating depth maps. It has been on 20% for 7 hours. I am using Metashape version 2.2.1. Here are my computer's specs

Processor   Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900K   3.20 GHz
Installed RAM   128 GB (128 GB usable)
Device ID   AE267FEE-8EA2-4901-B685-BC93AF0A601A
Product ID   00355-61030-56959-AAOEM
System type   64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch   Touch support with 10 touch points

GPU is an Nvidia RTX 5080


Why would it be taking so long?

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General / Re: Align imported point cloud file

« on: February 07, 2025, 02:25:36 AM »

Has anyone figured this out? This seems like it should be a pretty basic function to do within Metashape. I cant find any documentation on this anywhere. There is some stuff about aligning laser scans but I havent found anything that mentions aligning imported point clouds to control. Im thinking the best way to do this would be to translate the point cloud in Global Mapper first and then import it into Metashape. It would be really nice if you could just align the imported point cloud to control inside Metashape though.

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General / How to adjust imported point cloud to control

« on: February 07, 2025, 02:21:12 AM »

How do you adjust an imported point cloud to match control points? Ive tried both making them "laser scans" and not laser scans. I have the images tagged with the gcps and they are in good shape.  But how do you translate the point cloud to match the control and the rest of the project? It really just needs to be adjusted in the Z axis but is there not a way to match the point cloud to control?

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General / Re: Export of single georeferenced Orthophotos

« on: February 07, 2025, 02:19:16 AM »

Thanks for the response Alexey!

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General / Re: Unsupported Extension exporting Orthophotos

« on: February 07, 2025, 02:18:48 AM »

Thank you Alexey!

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General / Re: Metashape not reading image locations

« on: February 06, 2025, 05:40:19 AM »

I spoke too quick and realized metashape is reading the locations and its an alignment problem. Ive had a lot of success in the past using aggieair's method but for some reason this dataset has me stumped. the images were from the camera on our lidar unit - we definitely flew at a consistent altitude across this area.  the problem is that the terrain below is forested and somewhat homogenous.  overlap is probably the issue most likely since we usually do not use as much overlap on lidar missions. this was an afterthought to pull the images from the scanner to process an ortho to try and process them the way they are. Ive been looking to see if there was any info or helps out there where anyone has had similar issues and been able to work a little "magic" to make a data set work.  I know that adjusting the alignment settings, such as tie points and keypoints and even some of the camera calibration settings have influence on the alignment process.  Metashape is a great software and is very flexible for this very reason, and why i wont use anything else! Ive pulled projects out of the hole before, unfortunately sometimes you cant.

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General / Re: align photos default settings

« on: February 06, 2025, 05:33:42 AM »

having some issues aligning images on a couple of projects. Im having trouble finding resources that talk about problematic datasets.  Short of re-flying this project what are some ways to align the images? Aligning manually is an option but we are talking a hundred photos or more and its some open pasture type of terrain. I know homogenous landscapes are difficult but are there any tricks we can try? Ive been using agisoft for a long time and Ive been able to work "magic" in the past but i have met my match on this one.

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General / Re: Export of single georeferenced Orthophotos

« on: February 05, 2025, 06:10:53 PM »

Hey Alex, when I go to export the orthophotos it tells me that it is exporting all of them as a tiff but then when I go into the folder after it has completed there is only one file.

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General / Re: export orthophotos/convert images

« on: February 05, 2025, 04:07:48 AM »

Can I have some help figuring out how to export more than one orthophoto at a time. It allows me to export one at a time but when I try to batch export, it won’t work- it tells me “unsupported file extension”.

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General / Re: Unsupported Extension exporting Orthophotos

« on: February 05, 2025, 12:23:22 AM »

Actually, I do need help. It will work if I try to export one photo as orthophoto, but not if I try to export all of them.

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General / Re: Unsupported Extension exporting Orthophotos

« on: February 05, 2025, 12:08:40 AM »

disregard this question! It was a problem with the way I was naming the files.

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General / Unsupported Extension exporting Orthophotos

« on: February 05, 2025, 12:04:26 AM »

How do you export orthophotos? When I do this, it tells me "unsupported extension".