Alignment problem with M4E RTK

Hello,

I made smart capture mission with Matrice 4E and at some point i lost RTK signal.

When I’m aligning the images captured I get this result.

I don’t understand why this is happening because I never had an issue aligning data without RTK.

Those long residual lines imply that the entire reconstruction is shifted from its prior position.

  • What coordinate system is set in the application settings?
  • Can you share a screenshot of the map view?
  • The RTK priors were embedded in the EXIF, or did you import a trajectory file? If trajectory file, what settings were used?
  • Show a screenshot of the “Selected inputs panel”, I want to see the details about the priors of the images
  • Also, post a screenshot of the Alignment seetings with all settings visible.

Thanks!

Hello Jakub,

Thanks for looking into this.

This alignment is a part of bigger alignment project. Because it was taking too long to align I made a test half the cameras. I will make another post bellow to explain.

I will explain better here.

I made 1 flight with the smart 3d capture with the drone.

Everything aligned properly here is the alignment with the map.

I’m attaching a screenshot.

Then I made another flight but at some point I lost Wifi signal from my hotspot.

Could that be the reason?

I got setup GCPs. Could that help the alignment?

I started aligning the problematic cameras and it took 22 hours and still is at stuck at 56%.

So I made a test with half the cameras to check the issue.

Any thoughts?

Should I align without geo data?

I tried various things I read on the forum about problems with RTK and none of them work.

I tried the incremental alignment of georeferenced images and it worked up to some point (around 80%) but then everything is back to crazy times and stuck at 50% of alignment for 20+ hours.

So I think I will try another workflow which I tried in the past and worked. Split the project in 2 regions with overlap. Align is region separately and then merge components.

If this doesn’t work than I will try older versions of RC.

I had a similar issue with RTK drone alignment of 60.000 images which was never finishing alignment. I tried an older version and problems were solved.

I’m definitely sure there is some sort of bug with RTK data and cameras which is making the program go in a loop.

I can confirm for anyone having similar problems that this method worked.