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Installation and Activation ................................................................................................ 1 System requirements ................................................................................................... 1 GPU acceleration ........................................................................................................ 1 Installation procedure .................................................................................................. 2 30-day trial and demo mode ......................................................................................... 3 Activation procedure ................................................................................................... 3 Floating licenses ......................................................................................................... 5 2. Capturing scenarios ......................................................................................................... 8 Equipment ................................................................................................................. 8 Camera settings .......................................................................................................... 8 Object/scene requirements ............................................................................................ 8 Image preprocessing ................................................................................................... 8 Capturing scenarios ..................................................................................................... 9 Restrictions .............................................................................................................. 10 Lens calibration ........................................................................................................ 11 Automated mission planning ....................................................................................... 13 Excessive image elimination ....................................................................................... 15 3. General workflow ......................................................................................................... 17 Preferences settings ................................................................................................... 17 Loading images ........................................................................................................ 18 Aligning photos ........................................................................................................ 25 Building dense point cloud ......................................................................................... 30 Building mesh .......................................................................................................... 32 Building model texture .............................................................................................. 35 Building tiled model .................................................................................................. 39 Building digital elevation model .................................................................................. 41 Building orthomosaic ................................................................................................. 44 Saving intermediate results ......................................................................................... 47 Exporting results ....................................................................................................... 48 Camera track creation and fly through video rendering .................................................... 63 4. Referencing .................................................................................................................. 65 Camera calibration .................................................................................................... 65 Setting coordinate system ........................................................................................... 69 Optimization ............................................................................................................ 79 What do the errors in the Reference pane mean? ............................................................ 83 Working with coded and non-coded targets ................................................................... 84 5. Measurements ............................................................................................................... 87 Performing measurements on 3D model ........................................................................ 87 Performing measurements on DEM .............................................................................. 89 Vegetation indices calculation ..................................................................................... 92 Stereoscopic measurements and vectorization ................................................................. 95 6. Editing ........................................................................................................................ 97 Using masks ............................................................................................................ 97 Editing point cloud .................................................................................................. 102 Classifying dense point cloud .................................................................................... 107 Editing model geometry ........................................................................................... 110 Shapes ................................................................................................................... 115 Orthomosaic seamlines editing .................................................................................. 117 iii Agisoft Metashape User Manual Remove lighting ..................................................................................................... 117 7. Automation ................................................................................................................. 119 Using chunks .......................................................................................................... 119 4D processing ......................................................................................................... 125 Python scripting ...................................................................................................... 127 Java API ................................................................................................................ 128 8. Distributed processing .................................................................................................. 129 Local network processing ......................................................................................... 129 Cloud processing ..................................................................................................... 134 A. Graphical user interface ............................................................................................... 137 Application window ................................................................................................. 137 Menu commands ..................................................................................................... 143 Toolbar buttons ....................................................................................................... 152 Hot keys ................................................................................................................ 156 B. Supported formats ....................................................................................................... 159 Images .................................................................................................................. 159 Camera calibration .................................................................................................. 159 Camera flight log .................................................................................................... 159 GCP locations ........................................................................................................ 160 Interior and exterior camera orientation parameters ........................................................ 160 Tie points .............................................................................................................. 160 Sparse/dense point cloud .......................................................................................... 161 Mesh model ........................................................................................................... 161 Texture maps .......................................................................................................... 162 Orthomosaic ........................................................................................................... 162 Digital elevation model
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