Agisoft PhotoScan User Manual Professional Edition, Version 1.4 Agisoft PhotoScan User Manual: Professional Edition, Version 1.4 Publication date 2018 Copyright © 2018 Agisoft LLC Table of Contents Overview .......................................................................................................................... v How it works ............................................................................................................. v About the manual ....................................................................................................... v 1. Installation and Activation ................................................................................................ 1 System requirements ................................................................................................... 1 GPU acceleration ........................................................................................................ 1 Installation procedure .................................................................................................. 2 Restrictions of the Demo mode ..................................................................................... 2 Activation procedure ................................................................................................... 3 Floating licenses ......................................................................................................... 4 2. Capturing scenarios ......................................................................................................... 8 Equipment ................................................................................................................. 8 Camera settings .......................................................................................................... 8 Object/scene requirements ............................................................................................ 8 Image preprocessing ................................................................................................... 8 Capturing scenarios ..................................................................................................... 9 Restrictions .............................................................................................................. 10 Lens calibration ........................................................................................................ 11 3. General workflow ......................................................................................................... 14 Preferences settings ................................................................................................... 14 Loading photos ......................................................................................................... 15 Aligning photos ........................................................................................................ 18 Building dense point cloud ......................................................................................... 22 Building mesh .......................................................................................................... 23 Building model texture .............................................................................................. 26 Building tiled model .................................................................................................. 29 Building digital elevation model .................................................................................. 30 Building orthomosaic ................................................................................................. 32 Saving intermediate results ......................................................................................... 35 Exporting results ....................................................................................................... 36 4. Referencing .................................................................................................................. 48 Camera calibration .................................................................................................... 48 Setting coordinate system ........................................................................................... 51 Optimization ............................................................................................................ 59 Working with coded and non-coded targets ................................................................... 62 5. Measurements ............................................................................................................... 64 Performing measurements on 3D model ........................................................................ 64 Performing measurements on DEM .............................................................................. 65 Vegetation indices calculation ..................................................................................... 67 6. Editing ........................................................................................................................ 71 Using masks ............................................................................................................ 71 Editing point cloud ................................................................................................... 75 Classifying dense cloud points .................................................................................... 78 Editing model geometry ............................................................................................. 79 Shapes .................................................................................................................... 83 Orthomosaic seamlines editing .................................................................................... 84 7. Automation .................................................................................................................. 86 Using chunks ........................................................................................................... 86 4D processing .......................................................................................................... 90 Python scripting ........................................................................................................ 92 8. Network processing ....................................................................................................... 93 iii Agisoft PhotoScan User Manual Overview ................................................................................................................. 93 Cluster components ................................................................................................... 93 Cluster setup ............................................................................................................ 94 Cluster administration ................................................................................................ 96 A. Graphical user interface ................................................................................................. 98 Application window .................................................................................................. 98 Menu commands ..................................................................................................... 102 Toolbar buttons ....................................................................................................... 110 Hot keys ................................................................................................................ 114 B. Supported formats ....................................................................................................... 116 Images .................................................................................................................. 116 Camera calibration .................................................................................................. 116 Camera flight log .................................................................................................... 116 GCP locations ........................................................................................................ 117 Interior and exterior camera orientation parameters ........................................................ 117 Tie points .............................................................................................................. 117 Sparse/dense point cloud .......................................................................................... 117 Mesh model ........................................................................................................... 118 Texture .................................................................................................................. 118 Orthomosaic ........................................................................................................... 119 Digital elevation model (DSM/DTM) .......................................................................... 119 Tiled models .......................................................................................................... 119 Shapes and contours ................................................................................................ 119 C. Camera models ........................................................................................................... 120 Frame cameras .......................................................................................................