Fairly dense point cloud but no 3d model above trees/buildings

[Raleigh]

I manually flew and uploaded around 350 pictures of this tower site but regardless of processing software (pix4d, dronedeploy, webodm) im unable to get the tower to render as a 3d model. Does anyone have any tips for getting truss stuff to model?

[smathermather]

See this thread:

Modelling skinny tall things - an observation

hi opendronemappers in the vein of @smathermather’s recent exploration of mapping all the things with ODM, I’ve been tinkering with towers and trees. These are traditionally hard topics for reconstruction (in my experience, maybe I can learn something!) - so here is a first cut attempt. The flight pattern is lots of circles at different heights, plus some with an upward looking camera (increasing the exposure offset so that detail is captured where there’s no direct light). My ODM settings we…

The problem is tricky. Samir Aroudj’s TSR is the best known solution, but no one has had time yet to attempt to plug it into the OpenDroneMap ecosystem:
https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/tsr/tsr.en.jsp

The results are incredibly promising:

The known steps to get it in are as follows:

1. Built it
2. Test it
3. Test performance
4. Integrate into install for ODM + flag for enabling