This a repetitive flight and using most default settings. It is running a lot slower in Step 2 than normal. The flight does have some dirty edges that aren’t normally as bad. Would not think that would create such a slow run time.
2500 images
Hi @jlmitchell42,
it is hard to tell what doesn’t work without more information. Could you please share the log file of your project? This will provide information on the ongoing processing, the hardware, the resolution of the images,…and should enable some more comments and suggestions.
What I can suggest in the meantime, is to try out the software Pix4Dmatic for your processing. The software is much faster and is built for larger datasets such as yours. You can try it out here: https://www.pix4d.com/download/pix4dmatic
What are the deliverables you need at the end of the processing? e.g. only the dense point cloud, or more.
Thanks!
Sorry, I just saw this. I have not had any issues so have not been on in awhile.
Would love to try out pix4dmatic, if still an option. Contours are of my main product in order to compute volumes.
@jlmitchell42 sure, you can download the software here: https://www.pix4d.com/download/pix4dmatic and start a trial in the top right corner of the software once it’s opened. That should cover you for the photogrammetry part.
For the volume measurements and contours, I would recommend PIX4Dsurvey: https://www.pix4d.com/download/pix4dsurvey. You can make volume measurements (manual or semi-automatic) and export volume measurement reports as pdf. Contours can also be generated and much more.
Will survey be faster and generate ortho?
@jlmitchell42 the workflow is: PIX4Dmatic => PIX4Dsurvey.
PIX4Dsurvey will take the PIX4Dmatic project as input and will enable you to do the volume measurements and other vectorization work, it is meant for extracting information from a photogrammetry project, but won’t do the Orthomosaic. The latter will be created in PIX4Dmatic.
How can I setup trying these 2 in tandem and get a cost on how much more money per year vs mapper?
Downloading now. Can I use raw data in survey and generate contours or do I have to start in matic first?
@jlmitchell42 you can find pricing for bundles here: https://www.pix4d.com/pricing?tab=bundles (note that the PIX4Dmatic+PIX4Dsurvey is discounted and you get a PIX4Dmapper license in the bundle too!)
As for the second question, PIX4Dsurvey can import photogrammetry projects from PIX4Dmatic, PIX4Dmapper and any external .las/.laz files too. You need to create a TIN based on which you can then generate contours.
Hi @jlmitchell42, there should be no limitation here with the trial.
Are you logged in with your Pix4D account? Do you see your initial in a circle at the top-right corner of PIX4Dmatic?