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orthomosaic. The 3D model can be used to determine how well a study area was covered by the drone’s images.

Figure 13. Rough 3D model created through the Initial Processing step. Brighter areas in the center of the image have a higher point density and show location with a higher image overlap. Figure 2. Rough 3D model created through the Initial Processing step. Brighter areas in the center of the image have a higher point density and show location with a higher image overlap. Before densifying the 3D point cloud model in the Point Cloud and Mesh processing step, the 3D output from the Initial Processing step is first georeferenced. Georeferencing means locating and scaling an image so that it is positioned accurately in virtual space. To georeference a 3D image, we use the GCPs

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