WebODM . . . without a drone!?

WebODM
#1

I’ve just found this toolkit and it looks great.

I have, however, what may be a stupid question: is it possible to generate ortho’s / pointclouds without true aerial images? What are the limitations?

My current use case is a small valley of a few acres: Walking around at the highest point with my iphone I’m able to photograph a sizeable portion of the valley. What’s the best chance of getting a point cloud from these? If I walked to the next highest point on the other side and collected images, could those be stitched or is the change in orientation too extreme?

#2

You can get pretty good results with phone cameras. Just make sure to minimize blur and have sufficient overlap. Also avoid the “auto-focus” feature if you can set that.

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#3

Cool, are there any ODM settings in particular I should pay attention to? I assume the defaults are optimized for drone-based aerial images . . .