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Use the Inspection template

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  1. Create a project
  2. Review the images

The Inspection template allows you to quickly adjust your imagery and review individual images in the image viewer. You can annotate the images with points, lines, polygons, or text and export to a new image file.

Create a project

To create an inspection project, complete the following steps:

  1. Start Drone2Map.
  2. Sign in using your ArcGIS Online organization or Portal for ArcGIS credentials.
  3. Provide a name for your project, and choose a location where you'll save it or accept the default.
  4. Click Add Images or Add Folder and browse to the location of the sample images folder, select the folder or images in the folder, and click OK.
  5. Select the Inspection template and click Create to create the project.
  6. On the Flight Data tab, click the Images Table button Images Table to view image information about the imagery collection.
    7. Note:

    If orientation information (yaw, pitch, roll or omega, phi, kappa) is present in the images, Drone2Map will automatically adjust and symbolize the image center arrows based on the orientation of the images when the project is created. Processing does not to be run, and you can skip directly to reviewing the images.

  7. Click Start to begin processing.

Review the images

When processing is complete, the Image Viewer window appears and the Image Centers feature class has new symbology to denote the direction of the flight path using arrows. Use the image viewer to review the images with the following steps:

  1. Drag the corner of the Image Viewer window to expand the displayed image in the window.
  2. Click the edit button to display the annotation bar and export options.
  3. Add points, lines, polygons, or text to the imagery using the corresponding annotation button.

    Annotation edits to images are saved on the fly and are retained when you switch between images.

  4. Switch to the next image using the white arrow at the center of the window to the side of the current image.
  5. Continue to review the imagery, and use the export button to export a new image with your annotations that can be shared.

    Exports can be saved as .jpeg, .png, or .bmp files and will not contain the same metadata as the original image.

Once your inspection is complete, you can also quickly generate 2D or 3D products, because an image adjustment has already been run.

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In this topic
  1. Create a project
  2. Review the images