Transform your passion for drones into a valuable business. Learn to use drones for data collection and 3D mapping with the Pix4D app suite.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Drone mapping
- What is photogrammetry?
- Getting Part 107 certified: sUAS remote pilot
- Understanding airspace
- Air Map
- Which mapping drone and camera are right for you?
- Pix4Dbim: Mapper, fields, and model
- Using the Pix4Dcapture app to choose a mission: Part 1
- Using the Pix4Dcapture app to choose a mission: Part 2
- Preflight checks
- Downloading and naming your data
- The mathematical model of Earth in Pix4D
- Overview of Pix4D: Creating your first project
- Coordinate systems and projections
- Processing options template
- The Pix4D Map View interface
- Definitions: Densified point cloud, 3D textured mesh, DSM, DTM, and so on
- Initial processing: General
- Initial processing: Matching
- Initial processing: Calibration
- Creating the quality report
- Quality checking your data
- Processing the point cloud
- Generating a 3D textured mesh
- Advanced processing options
- Processing DSM and orthomosaic
- Additional outputs for DSM, orthomosaic, and index
- Using the Index Calculator toolset
- Choosing your output coordinate system
- Uploading to the cloud for processing
- GCP: Creating a high-precision project, part 1
- GCP: Creating a high-precision project, part 2
- GCP: Creating a high-precision project, part 3
- GCP: Creating a high-precision project, part 4
- GCP: Creating a high-precision project—rayCloud Editor
- MTP: Enhancing precision through manual tie points
- Splitting and merging large projects, part 1
- Splitting and merging large projects, part 2
- Splitting and merging large projects, part 3
- Splitting and merging large projects, part 4
- rayCloud interface and basic features
- rayCloud editing
- Annotation tools
- Volume calculator
- Mosaic Editor
- Thermal mapping
- AEC application: 3D scans and Pix4D
- How to search for help and resources
Taught by
Paul Tice
