MicMac Support Lands in WebODM

May 26th, 2019

Continuing our recent announcement about MicMac integration, today we are pleased to announce that support for NodeMICMAC in WebODM is now available! We have started making changes to the NodeODM API to accommodate a more engine agnostic definition, which will continue in the future to improve the synergy between projects. Existing WebODM users (using docker) can get up and running with MicMac by simply typing: ./webodm.sh update ./webodm.sh restart –with-micmac Kudos to the DroneMapper team for the development of NodeMICMAC […]

Stitching Historical Aerial Images From 1940 Using OpenDroneMap

May 17th, 2019

During the recent OSGeo Code Sprint hosted at the University of Minnesota, we had the opportunity to learn more about the university’s effort to preserve some historical archives of aerial imagery. We put our eyes on an old 1940 dataset of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The images are overlapping by about 20-30%. There’s also paper tears in many of the scans. We had never tried this before. Would it be good enough for ODM to process? We had to find out. […]