I did home and commercial inspections, grandson took over the business. At the time I was using a Phantom 4. I would first shoot a video about 50 feet over the roof. Pick out the areas that need a closer look and take photos of those areas. If Possible I would take one photo of the entire roof then mark any problem areas and reference photos of the area.
If you are doing inspections are you certified by someone? If not always call for a professional roof inspection if you see anything, and I mean anything that is suspect. Reason being if you tell the client the roof looks good, and problems are found later, guess what, you get sued. On flat roof pay very close attention to edges where water can accumulate. Get close ups of all flashing and make sure they are installed properly.
Thats odd as ICC is nation wideHere in Florida anyone can inspect a roof without having a roofing license or certification.
I'm happy to answer questions for anyone that wants to experiment with the software. Recently I created a virtual box image with all the software and prerequisites and libraries all installed and configured. For smaller data sets, running the software in a virtual machine isn't too bad.
To go down this path, you would first need to download and install oracle virtualbox software (free) for your Mac (or PC). The download link should pop up with a quick google search. Then you would need to download and import the actual virtual machine image from here: ImageAnalysis v20200214.ova
It may all sound a little daunting at first (especially compared to the ease of uploading images to drone deploy in the cloud) but my software is all open-source/free so depending on your use case it might help you out -- or you may decide paying for commercial software is the easier path in the long run. Every one's needs and projects are different and we are all here trying to find the best tools and straightest paths to get things done.
Once you have the virtual machine image up and booted, then we could probably talk about how to actually proceed from there. It's not that hard, but the virtual machine is running Linux and the tools are command-line style, so you have to be willing to read some instructions and ask a few questions. The instructions always lag behind the code in these types of projects ... sorry about that.
Disclaimer: this software has been developed out of a university research lab to support our research projects. I have been writing software for > 35 years so in my view these tools are really solid and outperform commercial tools in several areas, but they are presented in a "guts out" style. I use a command line tool model versus the polished GUI you would get from a typical commercial package. The benefit to me is that I can focus on the core algorithms and strategies and I don't get bogged down in look-and-feel and all the endless details that go along with developing a modern GUI app. I also make zero money from other people using the software, and most likely it just burns up my time answering questions, but I do think it would be cool if a few people started experimenting with it, and I'm happy to support that as best as I can.
Hi, I'm happy to help get you started. Is it worth splitting this off into a separate thread so this one doesn't stray off from the original intent? Or should we just keep going here? Are there others interested in following along, or would it be better to take this to private email?
With the switch from working in the office/lab to working from home, I actually need to still download the virtual machine image here so I can give accurate instructions (rather than saying stuff off the top of my head.)
Hi, any chance yet to help me out with it? Thanks a lot
as a new I got following error when starting up: "The shared folder 'curt' could not be set up: Shared folder path '/home/curt' does not exist on the host."
I can go further and start the virtual machine up, but then I have a (small) issue:
- my MAC keyboard is an AZERTY - so not easy but can work with it
The rests works perfectly! I see the amazing cornfield and can zoom in/out and use cursors to move around - beautiful quality
Yessss! I want to go ahead!!! I feel like a boy in a candy shop - but still with no wallet to buy anything ;-)
OK
- the machine is running in the command prompt (the ZTEST files again to see the stitching)
- In the mean time when I do want to use my testdata (DJI Mavic Pro, but also uses an Inspire 2 and a Yuneec H520 - so need maybe help here?), do I copy the testdata to a new folder in the same one as the ztest location or can I use the commands from my shared folder directly? Currently I just copied my pictures in a YTEST-folder next to the ZTEST but suppose it will increase mike you stated the size of the virtual image??
- camera's used are: Mavic Pro - Inspire 2 (with X5S body+ 2 types of lenses) - Yuneec H520 with E90 camera. Furthermore I use an infrared camera (FLIR 336R) which I mounted underneath the Inspire - not sure if I can make stichting pictures yet with this combination (not tried out yet)
thanks already a lot for your help!
Marc
curiosity : your image DJI_0264.jpg in the test: is this water? Colo(u)r is so grey??
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