On our weekly organizers call, we discussed software for doing 3D reconstructions from photos. I thought I'd make one list of the options currently available. Please add more in the comments if you know of any.
Free & Open Source Software
VisualSFM and geobduffy's tutorial on it
MicMac my previous note on MicMac MicMac's english documentation Mic Mac can supposedly do orthoimage creation too.
Python Photogrammetry Toolbox is available as a part of ArcheOS, a livedisk of linux with visualSFM & Python Photogrammetry toolkit installed. Here is a tutorial on its use
Free or limited Free use Commercial Software
Cubify (formerly Hyper3D)
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Hi Matthew, It's good to see this interest in PLOTS. A couple other open source (or nearly so) packages related to 3D mapping are: SURE (compatible with VisualSFM output): http://www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de/publications/software/sure/index.en.html
Ecosynther: described here with links: http://ecosynth.org/profiles/blogs/ecosynther-v0-7
There was a nice overview of several (mostly proprietary) packages in this paper: http://www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de/publications/phowo13/240Haala-new.pdf and a presentation here: http://www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de/phowo/2013/presentations/240Haala.pdf
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Thanks, Ned. Can't believe I forgot Ecosynther! that's one of the cooler ones.
That presentation is excellent in comparing the advantages of different solutions. Here were the software packages they looked at:
SocetSet, BAE Systems. UltraMap V 3.1, Microsoft. Match-T DSM 5.5, Trimbly/inpho. ImageStation, ISAE-Ext. GeoSystems. Astrium, PixelFactory. RMA DSM Tool, Royal Military Academy. Joanneum Research, Graz. MicMac, IGN France. SURE, Stuttgart University. DLR-SGM, German Aerospace Center.
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