Detect edge of "good quality" pts from drone flight pt cloud?

[jmaeding]

Hi there,
We fly many drone flights and compile, and there is always a warped zone around the edges where photo overlap degrades and so on.
I have run the survey statistics report tool and see some interesting things from it, but can I select pts using that?
The question posed to me was "can metashape automatically crop the pt cloud and ortho to some quality boundary?"
Of course, like HHGTTG, what does that question really mean?
I don't know, it was just asked by this guy, you know...lol (book reference)
All out of humor, send any good ideas my way if you got em.

[andyroo]

gradual selection/filter by confidence on the dense cloud might do what you want - you can get an idea if that would work for you by looking at the dense cloud confidence rather than RGB values. You can either delete those values or reclassify them and omit them from any DEM derivatives.