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 ............................................................................................................ 84 What do the errors in the Reference pane mean? ............................................................ 88 Working with coded and non-coded targets ................................................................... 89 5. Measurements ............................................................................................................... 92 Performing measurements on 3D model ........................................................................ 92 Performing measurements on DEM .............................................................................. 94 Vegetation indices calculation ..................................................................................... 97 Powerlines detection ................................................................................................ 101 Stereoscopic measurements and vectorization ............................................................... 102 6. Editing ....................................................................................................................... 104 Using masks ........................................................................................................... 104 Editing point cloud .................................................................................................. 110 Classifying dense point cloud .................................................................................... 116 Editing model geometry ........................................................................................... 118 Shapes ................................................................................................................... 123 iii Agisoft Metashape User Manual Orthomosaic seamlines editing .................................................................................. 125 Editing textures ....................................................................................................... 126 7. Automation ................................................................................................................. 128 Using chunks .......................................................................................................... 128 4D processing ......................................................................................................... 134 Python scripting ...................................................................................................... 137 Java API ................................................................................................................ 138 8. Distributed processing .................................................................................................. 139 Local network processing ......................................................................................... 139 Cloud processing ..................................................................................................... 144 A. Graphical user interface ............................................................................................... 148 Application window ................................................................................................. 148 Menu commands ..................................................................................................... 154 Toolbar buttons ....................................................................................................... 164 Hot keys ................................................................................................................ 168 B. Supported formats ....................................................................................................... 170 Images .................................................................................................................. 170 Camera calibration .................................................................................................. 170 Camera flight log .................................................................................................... 170 GCP locations ........................................................................................................ 171 Interior and exterior camera orientation parameters ........................................................ 171 Tie points .............................................................................................................. 171 Sparse/dense point cloud .......................................................................................... 172 Mesh model ........................................................................................................... 172 Texture maps .......................................................................................................... 173 Orthomosaic ..........................................................................................................