Create geospatial products in ArcGIS Reality Studio

The workflow for generating geospatial products in ArcGIS Reality Studio is described below. It includes loading orientation data to create a capture session, creating and processing an alignment to improve the quality of the orientation, and creating and processing a reconstruction to generate spatial products such as DSMs, True Orthos, point clouds, and meshes.

To generate products, complete the following steps:

1. Download, install, and authorize ArcGIS Reality Studio.
2. Start ArcGIS Reality Studio.
3. Add the imagery and orientation data.
   1. On the Home tab or the starting window, click New Capture Session.
   2. In the Capture Session Name text box, type a name for the capture session.
   3. In the Orientation File Format section, choose the Inpho project file option.

      An Inpho project is used in this workflow for simplicity. You can choose other orientation file formats to create a capture session.

   4. In the Orientation File Path section, browse to the location of the Inpho project file you want to add, and click OK.

      Note:

      The .prj file must have valid image paths and coordinate system definitions.

   5. In the Spatial Reference section, click the button.
   6. Click the button under Current XY and choose a horizontal coordinate system. Click the button under Current Z and choose a vertical coordinate system.
   7. Click OK.
   8. In the Capture Session Selection section, choose the camera sessions to add to the capture session.

      To select all camera sessions, click the Capture Session check box.

   9. Click Finish.

      The capture session is created and visible in the Project Tree pane.

4. Create and run the alignment to optimize the imagery orientations.
   1. On the Home tab, click New Alignment.
   2. Type a name for the alignment in the Alignment Name text box.
   3. In the Camera Sessions section, select the capture session.

      All camera sessions in the selected capture session are automatically selected.

   4. Click theCreate drop-down arrow and click Create and Run.

      The Save Project As dialog box appears.

   5. Browse to a valid location, type a name in the Name text box, and click Save.

      The alignment is created and visible in the Project Tree pane.

      The Process Manager pane appears showing the processing widget of the alignment.

      Wait until the alignment processing is completed.

      Once the alignment processing is finished, the QA tool appears with the Overview tab active, which displays general information and a statistical overview of the alignment results.

5. Create and run a reconstruction to generate the spatial products.
   1. On the Home tab, click New Reconstruction.

      The Reconstruction pane appears.

   2. Type a name for the reconstruction in the Reconstruction Name text box.
   3. Choose an option from the Capture Scenario drop-down list that best fits the input data for the reconstruction.

      Note:

      The aerial oblique scenario only generates point clouds and 3D meshes.

      The aerial nadir scenario requires values for Forward Overlap and Sideward Overlap.

   4. In the Camera Sessions section, choose an alignment.

      All optimized camera sessions from the alignment are automatically selected.

   5. In the Products section, choose the products to generate, or continue with the products selected by default based on the capture scenario chosen.
   6. Click the Create drop-down arrow and click Create and Run.

      The reconstruction is created and visible in the Project Tree pane.

      The Process Manager pane appears showing the processing progress.

      Wait until the reconstruction processing is complete.

6. In the Project Tree pane, click the Visualization tab, and click the check boxes next to the products you want to visualize in the Globe view.
7. On the Reconstruction tab, click Open Results Folder. File Explorer opens in the location of the results folder on the disk.