Agisoft Metashape User Manual Professional Edition, Version 1.5 Agisoft Metashape User Manual: Professional Edition, Version 1.5 Publication date 2019 Copyright © 2019 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 ..................................................................................... 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 Plan Mission ............................................................................................................ 13 Reduce Overlap ........................................................................................................ 14 3. General workflow ......................................................................................................... 15 Preferences settings ................................................................................................... 15 Loading photos ......................................................................................................... 16 Aligning photos ........................................................................................................ 21 Building dense point cloud ......................................................................................... 25 Building mesh .......................................................................................................... 26 Building model texture .............................................................................................. 29 Building tiled model .................................................................................................. 32 Building digital elevation model .................................................................................. 33 Building orthomosaic ................................................................................................. 35 Saving intermediate results ......................................................................................... 38 Exporting results ....................................................................................................... 39 4. Referencing .................................................................................................................. 54 Camera calibration .................................................................................................... 54 Setting coordinate system ........................................................................................... 58 Optimization ............................................................................................................ 67 What do the errors in the Reference pane mean? ............................................................ 70 Working with coded and non-coded targets ................................................................... 71 5. Measurements ............................................................................................................... 73 Performing measurements on 3D model ........................................................................ 73 Performing measurements on DEM .............................................................................. 75 Vegetation indices calculation ..................................................................................... 77 Stereo measurements and vectorization ......................................................................... 80 6. Editing ........................................................................................................................ 82 Using masks ............................................................................................................ 82 Editing point cloud ................................................................................................... 86 Classifying dense cloud points .................................................................................... 90 Editing model geometry ............................................................................................. 91 Shapes .................................................................................................................... 96 Orthomosaic seamlines editing .................................................................................... 98 Remove lighting ....................................................................................................... 98 iii Agisoft Metashape User Manual 7. Automation ................................................................................................................. 100 Using chunks .......................................................................................................... 100 4D processing ......................................................................................................... 104 Python scripting ...................................................................................................... 106 8. Distributed processing .................................................................................................. 108 Local network processing ......................................................................................... 108 Cloud processing ..................................................................................................... 112 A. Graphical user interface ............................................................................................... 113 Application window ................................................................................................. 113 Menu commands ..................................................................................................... 118 Toolbar buttons ....................................................................................................... 127 Hot keys ................................................................................................................ 131 B. Supported formats ....................................................................................................... 133 Images .................................................................................................................. 133 Camera calibration .................................................................................................. 133 Camera flight log .................................................................................................... 133 GCP locations ........................................................................................................ 134 Interior and exterior camera orientation parameters ........................................................ 134 Tie points .............................................................................................................. 134 Sparse/dense point cloud .......................................................................................... 134 Mesh model ........................................................................................................... 135 Texture .................................................................................................................. 135 Orthomosaic ........................................................................................................... 136 Digital elevation model (DSM/DTM) .......................................................................... 136 Tiled models .......................................................................................................... 136 Shapes