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Initial processing: Calibration

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Initial processing: Calibration

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- [Instructor] In the calibration tab, the targeted number of key points is usually set to automatic. That's a good setting for most things you'll be doing. If you change it to custom, it starts with this 10,000 number of key points, which is sort of a minimum number, and that's sort of designed for low resolution cameras. So you can keep that at automatic. On the calibration menu here, we have this standard, alternative and accurate geolocation and orientation. This is progressive. You might think of this as more and more accurate as far as where your camera's at. So standard is what it defaults to. That's going to use the geotagged images and so forth, but if it needs a little bit more help with geolocation of the images, alternative kind of ramps that up and it relies more on the geotagging to pull those together. of repeating geometry, and then accurate geolocation orientation, that option is really only necessary if you're using maybe a RTK-type system or something that is really…

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