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distinctive points or markings (on the ground), whose positions (coordinates) are known and which are visible on photos or images -- used to help correctly position the photography or imagery for mapping or GIS

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I am generating GeoTIFFs of sonar data. I am currently setting specific corner points using gcp options. This is all fine and works great. However, this really only works if the vehicle collecting the ...
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I have a function to convert the pixel values to the coordinates using the ground control points from the GeoTIFF file, which is given as below: import rasterio.control import rasterio.transform def ...
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I am georeferencing a historical map and then trying to harmonise it with polygons from another file. I am trying to think about the best way to do this with respect to setting control points. To give ...
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I have 600 GeoTIFFs, old maps, that are roughly rectified by the map corners. I want to improve them with more GCPs so that the internal scale that differs a bit gets more correct. Is there a way to ...
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Let's take a 6 x 6 mile US PLSS township, and house numbers 800 to a mile. Using gdaltransform, given the coordinates of each section corner as our ground control points (-gcp 4800 4800 lon lat for ...
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I have processed about 8 orthomosaics from UAV data collection. They used RTK for georeferencing, but I guess it was not done properly. They did not use GCPs. Therefore, the orthomosaics do not align. ...
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I'm using QGIS3 to try to georeference a screenshot of an old map of a state park (the PNG file) to a shapefile of the park's boundaries by matching points in the park's boundary. When I tell it to ...
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I am working with Sentinel-1 SAR images of a coastal area in ground range geometry (GRD product), which is defined by a geolocation grid of 10×21 ground control points. For further analysis, I need to ...
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I use CORS from TxDOT RTN to georeference DJI Phantom 4 RTK and Emlid Reach RS2. I have been using it in Corpus Christi, TX with no issues. I do Structure from Motion (SfM) in Metashape, verify the ...
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I have a *.tif, vintage aerial photo. Also, there is a metadata with coordinate information corresponding to the aerial photo. I would like to give that coordinate to the .tif. First of all, When I ...
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I am using ArcGIS Pro to perform an image classification. To do this I need training data polygons derived from the image which is being classified. I created training data polygons outlining features ...
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I have to geo-reference village maps(vector shapefiles) with the help of GCPs. In the transformation, the areas of the polygons need to match closely with their target values. Is there a QGIS plugin ...
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I have a block of code that applies GCPs I have calculated to spatially project an image. Essentially, I am projecting the image by defining the corners as points 1,2,3,4. # Set ground control points ...
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I am trying to make a 2D planer map of Mars, I have multiple non_georef images along with their geocentric lat and long. I am using gdal.GCP to georef these images; its working but something seems off ...
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My goal is to georeference a DEM tiff file that I have with a reference orthophoto. Steps to reproduce Open orthophoto (EPSG2056) in QGIS Open the DEM (EPSG2056) in the Georeferencer Add GCP (I am ...
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