All processing in Site Scan Manager uses the ArcGIS Reality Engine. Processing settings specify how the mission will be processed. When you click the Process Mission icon at the bottom of the mission page, the Confirm Reprocessing window appears that contains the Processing Summary, GCP Settings, Processing Settings, and Advanced Processing Settings sections.
Note:
The Process Mission icon on the mission page is enabled once images are uploaded to the mission. A minimum of six images must be uploaded for a mission to undergo processing.
Processing Summary
This section provides an overview of the mission with the following settings:
- Status—Indicate whether the mission has been processed and at what time, if it is currently undergoing processing, or if it has yet to be processed.
- Photos—The number of photos in the mission.
- Pixels—The total size of all images in the mission in megapixels (MP).
GCP Settings
This section contains information about the GCP set that will be used in processing, including the GCP set name, upload date, number of GCPs tagged, and number of checkpoints designated. Learn more about creating GCP sets, using automatic tagging andusing manual tagging.
Processing Settings
This section contains the following main configuration settings for mission processing:
- Output Quality—Set the quality of all processed outputs. The default is High, which provides a balance of quality and processing time.
- Generate Mesh—Enable this setting to generate mesh products.
- Mesh Options—The standard mesh output format is Scene Layer Package (SLPK). Optionally, you can generate an OBJ mesh instead.
Note:
OBJ mesh is only available for missions under a certain size. When Output Quality is set to High, the mission size limit for OBJ is 40 gigapixels. For Ultra, the limit is 10 gigapixels.
- Mission Area—Enable this setting to clip the processed outputs to the boundary of the mission area. Using a mission area can improve processing performance and reliability. View the mission area on the map before processing to verify that it meets the needs of the mission. For more information about configuring a mission area, see Define a processing extent.
Advanced Processing Settings
This section contains the following settings:
- Image Vertical Datum—Specify the vertical datum that the sensor captured images in. When set to Auto, Site Scan Manager uses sensor information from the image metadata to automatically apply a corresponding vertical datum. Individual images are handled uniquely to help in cases where a mission contains images from multiple sensors. You can override this by specifying the image vertical datum as either EGM96 Geoid or WGS84 Ellipsoid, which will apply to all images in the mission. Images from the following sensors will use WGS84 Ellipsoid when set to Auto:
DJI Zenmuse L1
DJI Zenmuse P1
DJI Zenmuse H20
DJI Zenmuse H20T
DJI Zenmuse X5S
DJI Zenmuse X7S
DJI Phantom 4 RTK
DJI Phantom 4 Multispectral
DJI M30
DJI M30T
DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced
DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise
DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral
DJI Mavic 3 Thermal
Any sensor containing XMP Pix4D:Camera VertCS tag ellipsoidal
Images from all other sensors use EGM96 Geoid.
- Use Image Orientations—Specify whether to use orientations if provided in the image metadata. When set to Auto, Reality Engine uses this information if it exists in the image metadata. When set to Off, the orientations in the image metadata are ignored and Reality Engine instead calculates image orientations. This may increase processing time but can help in cases when the image orientations are inaccurate.