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Megapixels and Image Quality – What Really Matters?
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Megapixels and Image Quality – What Really Matters?

Megapixels – often a headline of any imaging device specifications. Phones, drones, and all kinds of cameras list the megapixel count front and center. How significant is the amount of megapixels in an imaging device? Where is the line between helpful information and marketing?

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Jun 09, 2022
DJI Mini 3 Pro for Photogrammetry – Tool or Toy?
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DJI Mini 3 Pro for Photogrammetry – Tool or Toy?

DJI Mini 3 Pro – the latest compact DJI drone equipped with a capable camera. We purchased the drone with our money to evaluate using it for photogrammetry, just like we did with the Mavic 3. This article will not be a review, but an overview, emphasizing photogrammetry.

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Jun 01, 2022
Drone Duty –  a Flight Planner for Photogrammetry
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Drone Duty –  a Flight Planner for Photogrammetry

During years of photogrammetric software development, the Pixpro team faced challenges acquiring and processing photographs made for photogrammetry purposes.

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May 26, 2022
Measuring With Photogrammetry – Pixpro Software Advantage
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Measuring With Photogrammetry – Pixpro Software Advantage

Measuring with photogrammetry can be helpful in many industries and professions. Surveying, inspection, mapping, construction, and other fields require measurements for various goals.

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May 17, 2022
Measuring Roofs with Photogrammetry
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Measuring Roofs with Photogrammetry

For solar panel experts, measuring roofs and modeling photovoltaic power plants are daily tasks that can involve dangerous procedures. But with the help of drones and photogrammetry, the efficiency and safety of many methods can be improved.

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May 10, 2022
Referencing in Photogrammetry – Important Basics
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Referencing in Photogrammetry – Important Basics

Referencing in photogrammetry – is a set of actions in the field and post-processing that allows to scale, orientate and place a photogrammetry project correctly. A photogrammetry project with referencing is in the correct position in relation to the real world, has a scale, and can be measured.

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May 05, 2022
Glossary
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Glossary

In our blog and software help we often use terminology that might not be clear for everyone. Thus we decided to create our own glossary of most common terms used in the context of photogrammetry.

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Apr 27, 2022
How to use an RTK Drone as a GNSS Rover?
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How to use an RTK Drone as a GNSS Rover?

We explored the pros and cons of using an RTK drone and GNSS rover ground control points for accurate aerial photogrammetry referencing in another article. Not unexpectedly best results were achieved using both sources for referencing simultaneously.

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Apr 20, 2022
Ground Control Points vs. Real Time Kinematic
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Ground Control Points vs. Real Time Kinematic

With aerial photogrammetry, there are two most commonly used types of referencing – GPS metadata in the photos and ground control points in the scene. GPS metadata can come in the level of RTK precision, while ground control points (further GCPs) are always made with survey-grade equipment.

Pixpro author avatar Pixpro Team
Apr 13, 2022

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