Time-SIFT module for Agisoft Metashape software

Abstract

This module is designed to make it easier to use the Time-SIFT method on diachronic data sets from low-altitude (drone, kite, boom) or high-altitude (satellite, aircraft) airborne campaigns. PROCEDURE: The data must be separated in a folder called EPOCHS, with one campaign per folder (subfolders authorised) which brings together all the images from the same measurement date and the same sensor (RGB, IRC for example). Once loaded into Metashape (Run Script tab), a new menu bar appears summarising the various stages of Time-SIFT. For more information on the Time-SIFT method, please refer to : D. Feurer, F. Vinatier, Joining multi-epoch archival aerial images in a single SfM block allows 3-D change detection with almost exclusively image information, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 146, 2018, Pages 495-506, ISSN 0924-2716, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.10.016. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924271618302946). The module presented is compatible with Agisoft Metashape (version 1.5 or higher