What type of math/algorithms go into the process of making orthomosaics, DSMs, and meshes? What are the steps? I genuinely curious. I use ODM a lot and when people ask me how is works I want to be able to give a better answer than just “lots of heavy computations”. I understand the principles of pho…

Hey @Megan.Spencer :hand: see if these links are helpful: Where can I find background information on the concepts of ODM? - #2 by pierotofy Resources to Learn Photogrammetry and Computer Vision

@megan.spencer – also see https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/texrecon/ for details on the texturing portion. For dense point clouds, we use SMVS and will use MVE in the future. Also, I don’t know if anything has been published on it, but Mapillary’s OpenSfM has some pretty unique approaches…

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Hey @Megan.Spencer see if these links are helpful:

Where can I find background information on the concepts of ODM? - #2 by pierotofy
Resources to Learn Photogrammetry and Computer Vision