How to make money drone mapping, with Pix4D Ep#1

five four three this is drone mapping from ABC Goff there's a lot of exciting information to share with you from the mapping world I know what you're thinking was the last time anybody said exciting and drone mapping and the same sentence yeah that just happened but before I get to the exciting part I want to answer a few questions that I've had asked several times the first is why do I choose a local processing versus a cloud-based service well take a look at this picture this was an inspection it was processed by a cloud service I know you can't tell what it is because it's been edited by the cloud and what the cloud thinks is supposed to be taken away or it's not supposed to be there this is what it looked like after the client brought it to me and I processed the information locally if I can control what's edited and what's not then my reputation is still going to stay good with my clients so that's my two cents worth you can tell me what your your experience has been with the cloud and certainly this doesn't happen every time but when it is a possibility it's just not worth it to me hi another question that I've had several times is what am I going to do a demonstration of editing the point cloud also I've been asked about volume measurements so today we're going to do both I have a piece of property 17 acres and we're going to start with this today it's going to be a 12-month product process and we'll start by editing the property to keep just the land that we're going to monitor in in our map and then there's some stacks of rocks that dumptruck had put on the property they're going to break ground next week and will follow every stage of the way and I'll continue to make posts showing the the progress we're going to upload our data into a workflow system commonly referred to as a BIM and if you're interested in learning how to make money with your drone then you're not going to want to miss this series because it will show how you not only can process the data put it into a workflow system that allows the client to log in take a look at the data they can make measurements annotations changes it's supposed to save somewhere around 15% in costly mistakes so when projects cost millions or tens of millions of dollars 15% is a huge amount of money so we'll follow this this project and we'll see exactly what happens all right the second exciting news that I wanted to share is yesterday I was told that I'm going to get to be a part of watching a drone record-breaking event and this event is going to be so big that they're going for a Guinness Book of World Record I can't tell you what that is yet you'll just have to keep watching and we'll show you what it is we'll be there regardless of whether the records broken or not so I will post a video of that event but I guarantee you you won't want to miss it alright with that said let's get started alright so here's our piece of property our land we're going to edit these are the cameras blue dots are what the drone says are the GPS locations and angles of the camera and the green are what picks for these software says are the cameras and the angles turn off the cameras and since we're going to edit this is just the point cloud not the 3d mesh you can't edit the 3d mesh in fix 4d that's why you have to do it with the point cloud so the first thing we do is come over here to the edit button and then let's click with your mouse in in this case I'm going to cut out about half the street I just want some of it there so that I can still recognize the boundary and just keep left clicking all the way to get to where you're ready to stop and then when you are finish you right-click turns all of your area red since it's a point cloud you come up here to assign those points to the deleted area and then you hit assign oops I have it turned on so we turn it off if you find that you made a mistake and deleting something you can always check the deleted box and then reassign by clicking unclassified and we hit assign so in this case I'm happy with what I did alright so that's it for editing if you want to learn about volume make measurements here is two loads of stone they don't get a turn off editing two loads of stone that a dump truck put out so go over to your volume measurement tool click on that and to make your measurements you want to make sure you're not on the object you're trying to measure so you wanna call your works flat and just go all the way around it let's click all the way and the reason for staying away from it is because you want to have a flat playing surface so that it's going to get the best measurement possible so it knows what is above and what's below that line you're creating that may be a little close for okay and then when you're done right click and there you go so you come over here it's a compute and it'll look like that they give you your measurements Cheryl technician liftoff

Channel: GM6 Drone Mapping

Views: 57,114

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Id: UAsHhlbUrG0

Length: 7min 51sec (471 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 15 2017