Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 26 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Scott Lussier
Rating
Course Overview
Install, Setup and Learn How to use Free Drone Photogrammetry Software
Drones are incredible machines, capable of creating amazingly useful mapping products. By using drone images, one can create detailed maps and models of the earth through a process called Photogrammetry. Essentially, you computer analyzes the same area in multiple images and calculates a 3D model. Because of photogrammetry's usefulness, it is very expensive. However, there is a better way. A great way to get started with this is downloading and installing Open Drone Map, a free and open source software package available to everyone on the web. This course instructs you on how to:
Download and Install Open Drone Map, a free and open source photogrammetry software package
Load in photos that you took with your drone
Create data products such as Orthophotos, Orthomosaics, Digital Surface Models, Digital Terrain Models, 3D models
Take these data products and get them into GIS software for further analysis
Your Instructor has been making digital maps for over 30 years and teaching digital map making techniques at a University in Boston, MA for over 15 years. He has taught countless GIS labs using both ESRI products and, as of late, QGIS software. Around 5 years ago, the drones arrived and have allowed map makers to create high resolution background images of their study areas. As the digital mapping field matures into 3D visualization, drones as data collection machines continue to increase in usefulness.
This course is designed for folks who want to get started in Photogrammetry without having to pony up big bucks for the commercial software. With ODM, you can learn all you want for free. You may graduate up more complicated software at some point if your products start turning a real profit. You may find however that ODM fills all your needs and you'll never have to pay those high costs.
The course comes with instructions on how to get to many sample data sets as well as written instructions for software installation. With this course you have everything you need to get up and running. Now is the time to level up your drone game!
Course Content
- 5 section(s)
- 27 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Installation and Setup
- Section 3 Photogrammetry Terms and Concepts
- Section 4 The WebODM User Interface
- Section 5 Additional Features
What You’ll Learn
- Download and install Free and Open Source photogrammetry software
- Create 2D data products with your drone (Orthomosaics and DSMs and DTMs)
- Create to make 3D data products with your drone (Models and Volume Calculations)
- Master Photogrammetry techniques from drone photographs
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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HHales Mosqueda
Yessir
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UUdemy User
Lesson learned - read the reviews before purchasing the course! Similar to other reviews that I read, this instructor seemed to be "winging it" the entire time. He would "gloss over" most of the tools and particularly the GCP section rather than doing a full demo. I did not learn anything from this course that I could not have just figured out on my own by just playing around with the software and tools. The only part that I thought was valuable was how to get the program installed, and the photogrammetry terms.
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CChris Cerny
Content was a great overview. Instructor seemed to be "winging it". A lot of "...ums..." toward the end of the content. As a complete beginner, I would have appreciated a more detailed dive into the tools, and the buttons to activate them, and deactivate them. Just clicking them is something I can do on my own. Overall though, good for a beginner like myself.
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KKris Goodwin
Yes, great match and very informative. Thanks
