Highlights This updates NodeODM to match the latest ODM 3.6.2 release. GPU SIFT works. The :gpu image published in October 2025 was missing a CUDA library, so --feature-type sift silently ran on t...

Enabling observations of our world together since 2014.

As a follow up to my last post Joining as a maintainer I want to outline our immediate plans for the (possible) future of the build system. Lowering the barrier The first goal is going to be…

Hi everyone, Looks like I am the new maintainer of ODM, so as part of my onboarding, I want to gather a big list of TODOs that will be later discussed and compiled into a sensible roadmap. Now,…

Drone mapping software. Generate maps, point clouds, 3D models and DEMs from images, any orientation, any camera.

This technical guide details how you can create your own orthorectified (aka satellite view/bird mode) imagery, point clouds and 3D models of streets with nothing but a 360 degree camera mounted on bi...

Drone mapping software. Generate maps, point clouds, 3D models and DEMs from images, any orientation, any camera.

Whenever drones pop up in the news, whenever they buzz unnervingly again into popular perception, people ask me what I think about these latest developments on social media. Most of the time, and rega...

What's Changed Simultaneous map items display and swipe view by @pierotofy in #1597 Fix contours, objdetect plugins by @pierotofy in #1604 Handle PIL decompression bomb error by @pierotofy in #160...

What's Changed Update gunicorn to 19.8.0 fixing #1586 by @hauke96 in #1587 AI Object Detection by @pierotofy in #1589 Add point cloud resampling export by @pierotofy in #1590 Add worker max thread...

Part 1 of this series looked at how to fly drones and collect imagery for mapping over a small property. Part 2 showed use cases for a digital elevation model. This story focusses on the georeferen…

Drones have become humanity’s preferred catch-all explanation for weird stuff in the sky.