As a potential cost saving measure, you should be able to start the instance in the free tier, run your setup process, shutdown the instance, change the instance type to something more powerful, and then run ODM. Sort of moot since it only is in the $0.20 range for the instance you selected, but might save a little money during setup for people worried about it. Great videos BTW!
Very creative thinking, Matthew! Maybe in the near future I can do a cost analysis of ODM at various tiers/speeds in addition to your suggestion. Thanks for the feedback.
That would be very interesting. On the latest version of ODM, I've had to run instances with a lot of ram to crunch projects over 200 pics without errors. Would be interested to see if you run into the same issue. Maybe something I'm missing.
Claudiu Farcas That's a good question. I'm not sure what it would cost against Pix4D services, but I'm fairly confident running ODM will be cheaper. It's just a matter of determining if the output is sufficient for your needs given ODM is still in its infancy.
Hi Dennis! I am super interested in Open Drone Map proyect, seems like an amazing tool , I have tried to install it several times in my windows PC with no luck , I am a noob with linux and linux commands and I am pretty sure there is a lot of ppl out there that will like to use Open Drone Map but cant install it right , It will be suuuuuuuuuper nice if you or the OpenDroneMap guys could make an instalation video for the windows peasants!! Thank you in Advance!
+Jesus Montero Thanks for following along. I recommend looking at the ODM user group where they can hopefully answer your question: lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/opendronemap-users Good luck and let me know what you find out.
rockeshth2 It should be in one of the folders automatically generated by OpenDroneMap when you run the project on your imagery. This may help: ruclips.net/video/e2qp3o8caPs/видео.html
paulham I normally do it just to get the process memorized, but you don't necessarily have to. You can store your data on Amazon's EBS and persist it between new server instances: aws.amazon.com/ebs/ Good question.
rickesh t n I'm not entirely sure. You can join the group here and post the question on the list: lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opendronemap-dev
General imaging question: My current budget does not allow for a camera that itself can geo reference the images. Is there any way to use the APM 2.6 GPS data for the reference?
Yes you can. You can geotag the images using the APM log from the flight. The accuracy is probably better than you would get from a camera's GPS. If you google "MissionPlanner geotag photos" you should find some useful information
Jeremy McNamara here's the tutorial you're looking for: diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/geotagging-images-with-mission-planner. Just did the same thing... my SX260 has GPS but it sucks - APM logs are much better. Step 6 "estimate offset" did not work for me. You can alternatively use Mission Planner for playing the log file in order to see when you flew over a specific spot that you can identify in one of your photos and substract the time MP shows you from the one in the photo metadata. Beware that it might be negative (try both). Once the time offset is almost right you can fine-tune with Google Earth (file location.kml). OR: take a photo of the MP screen before flying the mission - much easier to get the offset right. OR: just make sure the offset is zero (i.e. set the time of your camera to match your APM's)...
Any ideas on if it is faster to run open drone locally over the EC2? I mean, are they running some hard core servers that will crunch the images quicker over, say my i7 at home... 8-)
patchlead Since it's all virtual your i7 will generally do a much quicker job assuming you have enough RAM and don't have any other processes hogging your CPU. I've only done this on EC2 so it will be interesting to see what happens on a physical machine.
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies.
nickmacpr I'm not sure that it will work based on what I'm reading here: www.agisoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=3345.0 I'll have to look into this further.
+Santiago Correa I'd recommend checking out the latest version of ODM now with python support: github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap Hopefully that will make it easier to troubleshoot than a standard bash script.
I'm having trouble installing on my ubuntu ec2 spot instance. I run the script and it crashes before it can install any dependencies. anyone else have this issue?
Mark Williams That would be cool. I haven't messed with Docker but have heard good things about it. Will have to look into it. I hope you're doing well!
Bryce Davey It's easier for me to run Linux on a remote server than running it locally on my MacBook Pro. I can also get more computing power with a server than my laptop.
Dennis Baldwin ahh okay that makes sense... Just got my plane work this weekend. A bit of a noob and all so it's already held to gethor with duck tape but all part of the experience :) I think I'll just use my Mac pro only 6 core but should do the trick ;) "eventually"
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies.
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies.
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies
Awesome!!! I need to get into Open Drone Map. Thanks for your amazing videos.
Binesh Maharjan You should definitely check it out. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks, Ive been struggling with getting this running. This helps a lot.
Nett Air No problem at all. Thanks for watching.
Very nice explanation. Thanks for this.
Philly Drones No problem. This project is amazing and hopefully the community can keep the momentum going.
Great stuff - thanks, Dennis
No problem. Thanks for watching.
As a potential cost saving measure, you should be able to start the instance in the free tier, run your setup process, shutdown the instance, change the instance type to something more powerful, and then run ODM. Sort of moot since it only is in the $0.20 range for the instance you selected, but might save a little money during setup for people worried about it. Great videos BTW!
Very creative thinking, Matthew! Maybe in the near future I can do a cost analysis of ODM at various tiers/speeds in addition to your suggestion. Thanks for the feedback.
That would be very interesting. On the latest version of ODM, I've had to run instances with a lot of ram to crunch projects over 200 pics without errors. Would be interested to see if you run into the same issue. Maybe something I'm missing.
I want to build a vtol that can map and process off a pi with webodm and ec2. It's amazing enterprise firms aren't hip to this even in 2023.
Thank you for sharing this topic! I am curious what would be the average processing cost and a comparison with Pix4D services.
Claudiu Farcas That's a good question. I'm not sure what it would cost against Pix4D services, but I'm fairly confident running ODM will be cheaper. It's just a matter of determining if the output is sufficient for your needs given ODM is still in its infancy.
Hi Dennis! I am super interested in Open Drone Map proyect, seems like an amazing tool , I have tried to install it several times in my windows PC with no luck , I am a noob with linux and linux commands and I am pretty sure there is a lot of ppl out there that will like to use Open Drone Map but cant install it right , It will be suuuuuuuuuper nice if you or the OpenDroneMap guys could make an instalation video for the windows peasants!! Thank you in Advance!
+Jesus Montero Thanks for following along. I recommend looking at the ODM user group where they can hopefully answer your question: lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/opendronemap-users Good luck and let me know what you find out.
Hi dennis, Where is the point cloud saved for the processing oof this dataset? or do we need to give an explicit command for it. ??
rockeshth2 It should be in one of the folders automatically generated by OpenDroneMap when you run the project on your imagery. This may help: ruclips.net/video/e2qp3o8caPs/видео.html
Dennis, does Open Drone Map work on the latest Ubuntu 14.xx? Thanks in advance.
Binesh Maharjan I haven't test on 14.10 but will try to do so in the next few days.
Dennis do you have to clone the Git and install ODM each time you open a new server, or can the EC2 keep your data
paulham I normally do it just to get the process memorized, but you don't necessarily have to. You can store your data on Amazon's EBS and persist it between new server instances:
aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Good question.
Hi dennis, I am trying to get the computed GSD from the opendronemap. Can you give hint where the GSD is computed and saved in OpenDronemap?
rickesh t n I'm not entirely sure. You can join the group here and post the question on the list:
lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opendronemap-dev
General imaging question: My current budget does not allow for a camera that itself can geo reference the images.
Is there any way to use the APM 2.6 GPS data for the reference?
Yes you can. You can geotag the images using the APM log from the flight. The accuracy is probably better than you would get from a camera's GPS. If you google "MissionPlanner geotag photos" you should find some useful information
Jeremy McNamara here's the tutorial you're looking for: diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/geotagging-images-with-mission-planner. Just did the same thing... my SX260 has GPS but it sucks - APM logs are much better. Step 6 "estimate offset" did not work for me. You can alternatively use Mission Planner for playing the log file in order to see when you flew over a specific spot that you can identify in one of your photos and substract the time MP shows you from the one in the photo metadata. Beware that it might be negative (try both). Once the time offset is almost right you can fine-tune with Google Earth (file location.kml). OR: take a photo of the MP screen before flying the mission - much easier to get the offset right. OR: just make sure the offset is zero (i.e. set the time of your camera to match your APM's)...
Jeremy McNamara In addition to what Mark and Till mentioned maybe this will help: ruclips.net/video/ok9bpmUuQnM/видео.html
Hey, it would be interesting if you could create a tutorial using OwnCloud creating a virtual server on our machine.
Okay. If I get a chance I will give that a try. Thanks.
Hi Dennis, would it be possible (and would you be willing) to used WebODM and Amazon EC2? Thanks!
Any ideas on if it is faster to run open drone locally over the EC2? I mean, are they running some hard core servers that will crunch the images quicker over, say my i7 at home...
8-)
patchlead Since it's all virtual your i7 will generally do a much quicker job assuming you have enough RAM and don't have any other processes hogging your CPU. I've only done this on EC2 so it will be interesting to see what happens on a physical machine.
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies.
Hi., I have Agisoft. Is there a way you can show me to link Agisoft to Amazon EC2.? Please
nickmacpr I'm not sure that it will work based on what I'm reading here:
www.agisoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=3345.0
I'll have to look into this further.
Hi Dennis,
I didn't get the finish script. What would I do for it?
Thanks
+Santiago Correa I'd recommend checking out the latest version of ODM now with python support:
github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap
Hopefully that will make it easier to troubleshoot than a standard bash script.
the news files no include the file install.sh, you can tell me where is it, thank you
I'm having trouble installing on my ubuntu ec2 spot instance. I run the script and it crashes before it can install any dependencies. anyone else have this issue?
Nice video. I think there's a place for a vagrant, chef, docker setup here.
Mark Williams That would be cool. I haven't messed with Docker but have heard good things about it. Will have to look into it. I hope you're doing well!
Why do you use a sever ?
Bryce Davey It's easier for me to run Linux on a remote server than running it locally on my MacBook Pro. I can also get more computing power with a server than my laptop.
Dennis Baldwin ahh okay that makes sense... Just got my plane work this weekend. A bit of a noob and all so it's already held to gethor with duck tape but all part of the experience :)
I think I'll just use my Mac pro only 6 core but should do the trick ;) "eventually"
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies.
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies.
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies
first, thanks for your work on this project! I'm running a AWS ec2 ubuntu instance and the install script does not want to run. anyone else have this issue? it it starts then crashes before showing it has downloaded any dependencies
+William Rudisill Check out the user list and they map be able to help you out: lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/opendronemap-users