Stone Town Digital Surface Model

Reposted from smathermather.com



Thanks to the tireless work of the folks behind the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative, I have been exploring the latest settings in OpenDroneMap for processing data over Stone Town. I managed to get some nice looking orthos from the dataset:

But, excitingly, I was able to extract some nice looking surface models from the dataset too. This required using the Brown-Conrady model that recently got added to OpenSfM:

This post is a small homage to the late his Majesty Sultan Qaboos. Given the strong affinity and shared history between Zanzibar and Oman, it seems fitting to post these.



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