ODM used by Washington Post to create graphics for news story

[pierotofy]

I thought it was kind of cool: a few months ago the Washington Post reported a story and used ODM to create the 3D model used in the illustrations:

Link to news article:

The land was worth millions. A Big Ag corporation sold it to Sonny Perdue’s...

The Post created a 3-D model of the AGrowStar facility from drone footage using a process called photogrammetry. The Post used Open Drone Map, an open-source software tool, to process thousands of images from a series of flights over the property and output a model. The Post used Blender to clean the model, customize the lighting and render images. Further cleaning to remove digital artifacts in the rendered image was performed in Photoshop. Aerial imagery for the map of Estill is from the USDA Farm Service Agency’s National Agricultural Imagery Program and taken in 2017.

[Saijin_Naib]

Really well done!

And their post-processing workflow is also quite impressive. Would love for that team to do a write-up on that alone!

[smathermather]

So cool! I love that all the flyovers are actually simulated with the 3D model, but they don’t say so, they just make a really cool 3D model and use it 3 ways to Sunday.

[Saijin_Naib]

excusemewhatthe?

That makes this all the more incredible, and explains the pains they went through to post-process the data.

Gonna have to re-look with the magnifying glass out this time.

[uplanddog]

curious how many hours was spent building that. quite impressive presentation.