Ecosynth is a suite of tools used to map and measure vegetation in three dimensions using off-the-shelf digital cameras and open-source computer vision software, from the ground or using low altitude hobbyist aircraft.
In the sections below you will find information and tools for surveying a landscape from above with a UAS, turning the collected images and other data into useful products for analysis, and sharing your results with the community.
To learn more about how to take advantage of other features and build your own pipelines, please explore the documentation linked in the navigation bar above. For feedback and troubleshooting, feel free to checkout Ecosynth's community site also linked above in the navigation bar.
Summary: In this stage, a UAS with an attached camera flies over an area of interest, capturing images of the ground below. Click the button below to learn more about how to get started.
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Summary: In this stage, a computer vision program constructs a point cloud from the data collected in the previous stage. While propriety software exists to do this task, Ecosynth has developed a tool called "Ecosynther" based on open source software to generate these point clouds. Currently the tool must be run remotely using an Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute instance. Learn more about how to get setup with Ecosynther in the User Guide link below.
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Summary: In this stage, the generated point cloud is georeferenced to the UTM coordinate system, filtered for noise, and characterized for quality. The tool accessible through the link below provides a simple way for users to process data through a standard pipeline. The pipeline is based off of the EcosynthAerial library, and to learn more about what other post-processing and analysis you can do, feel free to consult the library's documentation linked in the navigation bar above.
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Summary: This stage offers users the ability to push collected and processed data to a database that can be publically accessed for collaborative purposes.
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