Agisoft Metashape User Manual Professional Edition, Version 1.7 Agisoft Metashape User Manual: Professional Edition, Version 1.7 Publication date 2021 Copyright © 2021 Agisoft LLC Table of Contents Overview .......................................................................................................................... v How it works ............................................................................................................. v About the manual ...................................................................................................... vi 1. Installation and Activation ................................................................................................ 1 System requirements ................................................................................................... 1 GPU recommendations ................................................................................................ 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 ....................................................................................... 17 3. General workflow ......................................................................................................... 18 Preferences settings ................................................................................................... 18 Loading images ........................................................................................................ 19 Aligning photos ........................................................................................................ 27 Building dense point cloud ......................................................................................... 33 Building mesh .......................................................................................................... 35 Building model texture .............................................................................................. 38 Building tiled model .................................................................................................. 42 Building digital elevation model .................................................................................. 45 Building orthomosaic ................................................................................................. 47 Saving intermediate results ......................................................................................... 52 Exporting results ....................................................................................................... 52 Camera track creation and fly through video rendering .................................................... 68 4. Referencing .................................................................................................................. 70 Camera calibration .................................................................................................... 70 Setting coordinate system ........................................................................................... 74 Optimization ............................................................................................................ 85 What do the errors in the Reference pane mean? ............................................................ 89 Working with coded and non-coded targets ................................................................... 90 5. Measurements ............................................................................................................... 93 Performing measurements on 3D model ........................................................................ 93 Performing measurements on DEM .............................................................................. 95 Vegetation indices calculation ..................................................................................... 98 Powerlines detection ................................................................................................ 102 Stereoscopic measurements and vectorization ............................................................... 103 6. Editing ....................................................................................................................... 105 Using masks ........................................................................................................... 105 Editing point cloud .................................................................................................. 111 Classifying dense point cloud .................................................................................... 117 Editing model geometry ........................................................................................... 119 Shapes ................................................................................................................... 124 iii Agisoft Metashape User Manual Orthomosaic seamlines editing .................................................................................. 126 Editing textures ....................................................................................................... 127 7. Automation ................................................................................................................. 129 Using chunks .......................................................................................................... 129 4D processing ......................................................................................................... 135 Python scripting ...................................................................................................... 138 Java API ................................................................................................................ 139 8. Distributed processing .................................................................................................. 140 Local network processing ......................................................................................... 140 Cloud processing ..................................................................................................... 145 A. Graphical user interface ............................................................................................... 149 Application window ................................................................................................. 149 Menu commands ..................................................................................................... 155 Toolbar buttons ....................................................................................................... 165 Hot keys ................................................................................................................ 169 B. Supported formats ....................................................................................................... 171 Images .................................................................................................................. 171 Camera calibration .................................................................................................. 171 Camera flight log .................................................................................................... 171 GCP locations ........................................................................................................ 172 Interior and exterior camera orientation parameters ........................................................ 172 Tie points .............................................................................................................. 172 Sparse/dense point cloud .......................................................................................... 173 Mesh model ........................................................................................................... 173 Texture maps .......................................................................................................... 174 Orthomosaic ..........................................................................................................