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Project management

Creating projects, organizing sets, and managing images

Creating a project

Select "New Project" on the project list screen.

New project creation screen

Basic settings

  • Project name (required) — Enter a name that identifies the project, such as the building name
  • Description (optional) — Free-form notes or remarks

Configuring sets

A set is a unit for grouping images. Orthomosaics are generated per set, so put each facade of a building (north face, south face, and so on) in its own set.

  • Assign one or more image folders to each set
  • Click "+ Add Set" to add another set
  • Folders can be added to or removed from each set individually

For cylindrical or curved buildings: For targets with curved walls — tanks, silos, round buildings — a per-facade planar orthomosaic is not a good fit. In that case, group the images captured all the way around the building into a single set, generate a 3D mesh, and inspect and measure on the 3D model instead.

Adding image folders

To align infrared and visible images, both must be located in the same folder.

Finishing creation

Click "Create". The images in the specified folders are scanned automatically, and the main screen opens.

Filtering images

Use the bar at the top of the image list panel to narrow down which images are shown. This is handy when you are looking for specific images among hundreds.

Filter bar of the image list
FilterDescription
All Images / Infrared Images / Visible Images / Zoomed ImagesFilter by image type (counts shown in parentheses)
Hide inspectedHide images that have been marked as inspected
Hide excludedHide images excluded by culling or other operations
Search by filename...Filter by part of the filename

Marking images as inspected

Click the badge in the top-left corner of a thumbnail to mark the image as inspected (a green check badge). Click it again to clear the mark. Besides tracking which images you have reviewed, it also works well as a flag for images of interest you want to revisit later.

Thumbnail marked as inspected (left) and unmarked thumbnail (right)

You can also select multiple images, right-click, and choose Mark as Inspected / Clear Inspected to set them in bulk.

When an image is marked as inspected, its camera frame is shown filled in the ortho viewer, so you can see inspected and uninspected areas at a glance.

Culling by location

From Process ▾Cull by Location on the toolbar, you can automatically exclude duplicate images captured while hovering and the like. Running this before image linking, 3D reconstruction, or orthomosaic generation shortens processing time.

Cull by Location dialog

Move the Target spacing slider (0.5–30.0 m, default 3.0 m) and the result updates instantly, e.g. 361 total → keep 154 (207 excluded). Click Run Culling to apply.

How culling works

Following the capture path, an image becomes an exclusion candidate when its distance from the previously kept image is below the target spacing. Because this is not a simple "keep 1 out of N" rule, bursts from slow or hovering segments are consolidated without leaving gaps in fast-flight segments.

In addition, the following images are always kept, even where spacing is dense:

  • Images where the camera heading (yaw) changed by 25° or more, or the tilt (pitch) changed by 20° or more
  • The first and last images of the capture
  • Images without GPS information

Culling is non-destructive. Excluded images are only removed from the inputs to image linking, 3D reconstruction, and orthomosaic generation — they are never deleted. Re-run with a looser target spacing to bring them back.

Sets without location (GPS) information cannot be culled. In that case the slider and the run button are disabled, and the message "Cannot cull: no location data." is shown.

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