Photographic survey

Photographic survey function allows to create a sessions of photos that can be later processed with a photogrammetric office software to generate a point cloud and a mesh.

For more information on how to process the photos with Fusion refer to Ground photo processing.

This function allows in the field to take photos for photogrammetric processing and measure with instrument control points that can be used for georeferencing the point cloud.

Data can then be easily exported using the X-PAD Exchange format to Fusion.

Click Survey.

Click Photographic survey.

Click Add to create a new session of photos and enter the session name.

The session is initially empty.

Click Add photo to load new photos to the session, loading the photos from the gallery or taking new photos.

When all photos have been loaded click Back.

To export the photographic survey data open Job page and select Export & Share.

Select X-PAD Exchange format.

Select to export the photographic sessions and select Accept.

This creates a file with extension .xpad containing the survey data and the photographic survey data that can be imported in Fusion.

Importing this file in Fusion creates automatically a Ground photos sessions with all photo loaded.

Refer to Ground photo processingon how to process the photos.