Tutorial 5 -1 - A 360 Degree 3D Orbit Mission

Introduction To 2 & 3D Drone Modeling With Agisoft Metashape

Section 1 - Introduction To 2D And 3D Modeling With Drones And Agisoft's Metashape

Tutorial 1 - 1 - Introduction To The Course - What You'll Need To Make The Most Out Of This Course (6:35)
Tutorial 1 - 2 - Giving In To Impatience - A Fast Model Build From Start To Finish (9:04)

Section 2 - Drone Photogrammetry - Building Models From Still Images

Tutorial 2 - 1 - What is Photogrammetry, and how is it related to Drone Modeling? (11:13)

Section 3 - Drone Data Collection - Tools for capturing images for photogrammetry

Tutorial 3 - 1 - Drone Data Collection Apps Overview - Drone Deploy, Pix4D, Map Pilot, GS Pro... (16:00)
Tutorial 3 - 2 - Map Pilot from Maps Made Easy. Setting up for an automated modeling flight (13:10)
Tutorial 3 - 3 - Pix4D Capture & Drone Deploy - Capture Apps for modeling - Cloud & desktop (10:16)

Section 4 - A sample data capture exercise - Map Pilot & Ground Station Pro

Tutorial 4 - 1 - Setting up Ground Station Pro for model data capture - A full mission build (26:02)
Tutorial 4 - 2 - Setting up Map Pilot for model data capture - A full mission build (22:30)

Section 5 - A small 3D model sample with Litchi and Metashape Standard

Tutorial 5 -1 - A 360 Degree 3D Orbit Mission - Litchi flight and image capture (12:43)
Tutorial 5 - 2 - Offloading and cataloging your model images - Kyno for keeping organized. (10:38)
Tutorial 5 - 3 - Adding cameras to Metashape and generating a simple model from our Litchi flight (14:10)
Tutorial 5 - 4 - Exporting your model for clients or the web - A quick example from Metashape (12:05)

Section 6 - Metashape Pro model example using GS Pro to capture flight information.

Tutorial 6-1 - GS Pro Flight Planning (12:55)
Tutorial 6-2 - Importing to Metashape, aligning cameras, and creating a dense cloud (10:01)
Tutorial 6-3 - Adding your Mesh, Texture, DEM, and Orthomosaic (12:33)
Tutorial 6-4 - What can you export and share from Metashape Pro? (8:21)

Section 7 - A closer look at Metashape - Beyond the presets

Tutorial 7-1 - An overview of the Metashape application - Starting more advanced topics (13:19)
Tutorial 7-2 - A closer look at Metashape's Workflow - Align, Dense Cloud, Mesh, & Texture (16:55)
Tutorial 7-3 - Model manipulation - Trim your model area before generating clouds, meshes, etc (15:29)
Tutorial 7-4 - Metashape's workspace arrangement and use - "What does this button do?" (13:03)

Section 8 - Advanced topics for further investigation - Chunks, Ground Control Points, More

Tutorial 8-1 - Chunks, Batch Processing, & Camera Optimization. A few advanced topics. (11:32)
Tutorial 8-2 - Good models gone bad - Manual image alignment with Metashape can help. (17:59)
Tutorial 8-3 - Ground Control Points (GCPs). GIS knowledge will be needed. (11:34)
Tutorial 8-4 - Final thoughts on GCPs and the necessary GIS knowledge needed for drone modelers (12:36)

Section 9 - Wrapping Up The Course

Tutorial 9-1 - Animations and Quick Screen Caps for sharing your model quickly and easily. (10:28)
Tutorial 9-2 - Wrapping up the course - Expect more to come based on your input! (4:19)

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