Drone Deploy/ArcGIS 9.3

Edward S Horvath · Jun 30, 2018

Does anyone use their aerial images for ArcGIS? Trying to upload the aerial image rasters and will not show up in GIS. Any suggestions or ideas?

Dave Pitman · Jul 1, 2018

No experience with ArcGIS but geo-tiffs drop right into QGIS.

Edward S Horvath · Jul 2, 2018

Dave Pitman said:
No experience with ArcGIS but geo-tiffs drop right into QGIS.

Thanks. I tried out QGIS and then was able to export the images into ArcGIS. But QGIS is kind of confusing for me since I've been using ArcGIS for almost 20 years

R Martin · Jul 2, 2018

Edward S Horvath said:
Does anyone use their aerial images for ArcGIS? Trying to upload the aerial image rasters and will not show up in GIS. Any suggestions or ideas?

I use them daily in 10.3 without any problems. Load them like any other shapefile with "Add Data" button. Afterwards, go into the .tif properties and check "Display Background Value" to remove the black background.

Edward S Horvath · Jul 3, 2018

R Martin said:
I use them daily in 10.3 without any problems. Load them like any other shapefile with "Add Data" button. Afterwards, go into the .tif properties and check "Display Background Value" to remove the black background.

I am thinking it is a 9.3 issue. But found a work around

R Martin · Jul 3, 2018

Edward S Horvath said:
I am thinking it is a 9.3 issue. But found a work around

Excellent.

The Editor · Jul 4, 2018

Maybe belongs in the mapping section!

Jullie · Jul 21, 2018

I use Arcgis 10.4 and no problem, just take care to the projection system when you export the orthomosaic is set by default on web mercator for the map projection better to choose another one.
I have a question for those you try to export the elevation model I don't know why I just have some color of the elevation model on the screen.
See attached picture the original elevation map on Drone Deploy and the elevation map on Arcgis 10.4 on 3 Bands and 1 streched band, missing a lot of information.
The DEM is correct, and this elevation map open perfectly in Google Earth.

Jullie · Sep 25, 2018

Just for those who have the same problem I found the solution here :
Displaying GeoTIFF in ArcGIS

R Martin · Sep 26, 2018

We use ArcGIS exclusively, ...except for Global Mapper which does a lot better job on DSM and DTM visualization.

Edward S Horvath · Nov 14, 2018

Well, I should have written down how I was able to import into QGIS and them export to ArcGIS 9.3. Because now I am back to trying to figure out how to import into ArcGIS 9.3. The site on Dronedeploy does not work for 9.3.

Does anyone have any idea how to bring into ArcGIS 9.3?

Edward S Horvath · Nov 14, 2018

R Martin said:
We use ArcGIS exclusively, ...except for Global Mapper which does a lot better job on DSM and DTM visualization.View attachment 830

Which version of GIS? We are using 9.3, and having issues importing. UGH

Edward S Horvath · Nov 14, 2018

Jullie said:
Just for those who have the same problem I found the solution here :
Displaying GeoTIFF in ArcGIS

Have you figured out how to import into ArcGIS 9.3?

R Martin · Nov 15, 2018

Edward S Horvath said:
Which version of GIS? We are using 9.3, and having issues importing. UGH

10.3.1 currently. I learned on 9.3 roughly ten years ago. Remember it was a pain switching over because of the new GUI.

Edward S Horvath · Nov 15, 2018

R Martin said:
10.3.1 currently. I learned on 9.3 roughly ten years ago. Remember it was a pain switching over because of the new GUI.

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I worry about the learning curve. I learned on 8.0. Then had 9.3. Been using 9.3 for 10 years.

I learned most of what I know on my own with 8 and 9.3, is the new ones easy enough to figure out on own?

R Martin · Nov 16, 2018

Edward S Horvath said:
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I worry about the learning curve. I learned on 8.0. Then had 9.3. Been using 9.3 for 10 years.

I learned most of what I know on my own with 8 and 9.3, is the new ones easy enough to figure out on own?

The big change was the GUI to me. Once you get past that and are able to find what you need it works about the same. Arc Desktop is on the way out. It won't happen tomorrow but ESRI is pushing everything onto the Cloud so eventually you are going to be either retired (like me) or using ArcPro. We were considering the switch but the hardware requirements make the change a lot less attractive from our perspective.

Edward S Horvath · Nov 16, 2018

I ended up picking up Pro and will play around with it. Supposed to have some good training videos... hopefully I can figure out during my slow season.