Hi,
I just found out that the images created by Autel’S EVO MAX 4T drone record pitch of the gimbal differently to what Pix4D expects as input.
They go from -90° (nadir) to 0° (horizontal) instad of the Pix4D-Standard 0 to 90°.
This of course completely ruins the processing.
My question is, if there is a way to tell mapper to offset the angles before calculating the Omega, Phi and Kappa values? Or any other idea how to handle these files.
I am working on manipulating the Exif/XMP data on the images directly but it would be a lot easier if Pix4Dmapper would be able to do this as standard for the Autel cameras.
Thanks for any hints or ideas!
After you import your images, in the Images Properties window do the following.
Choose the To File button - to export the images information
In Attributes choose Name, Coordinates, Oreintation, Accuracy
Choose a folder to download to.
Next open this file in Excel or Google Sheets.
Manipulate the Camera Orientation (Omega, Phi, Kappa) in Excel/Sheets to the correct orientation values.,
Import this sheet back into Pix4D mapper.
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That seems almost too simple. Will it export the orientation or Omega, Phi, Kappa values?
Because Omega, Phi, Kappa is calculated by Pix4D and the document on how to calculate it is not available anymore as it seems.
So using exiftool worked perfectly with the help of the exiftool forum. See solution here: Modifying a non-standard XMP tag
If only Pix4D would make a nice model from the data now. Orientation of the cameras is definitively correct.