New tools are always exciting! In July this year a new ANAFI thermal arrived to replace / collaborate with a couple of slightly broken ANAFI work aircraft. It’s taken a long time to put together a post about it because – its complicated! Adding the thermal camera means a whole new learning curve / capability…
Category: visualisation
Rock faces and RPAS
In early 2019 I took my ANAFI flying camera up to Mt Coree, aiming to capture some of the incredible sunsets that can be seen there. I also spent a battery flying a very close range survey of a cliff face, collecting images manually to create a very high resolution model. My aim was to…
Colouring point clouds with PDAL
Late last year I published a couple of full-RGB lidar datasets made from open data. While both had plenty of ways to generate false-colour interpretive insights (classification, elevation, intensity, flight line), seeing the data in ‘real colour’ lets us identify with it more easily. It helps us find both analytical insight and context. As an…
A method for offline entwine EPT viewing
So you made an Entwine point tile index and want to deliver it offline as a quick demonstration? Impress your friends, enemies and frenemies like this. You need: git python3 a non-safari web browser I’m using a MacOS 10.7 machine, and therefore assume you are also. The same set of instructions should work for any…