Viewing a Quality Report

The Quality Report contains statistical and graphical information about the quality of the build and its aerotriangulation and reconstruction results. It highlights key information and alerts you to potential problems such as missing information, triangulation errors, or failed tiles, which are likely to affect the quality of your build output. This enables you to address and resolve the necessary issues. If the report is generated for a specific tile, it will only display information for that tile. The report contains the following sections:

§  Report Summary – Quick overview of the status of your build and warnings about errors or missing information that may need adjustment to produce a quality build.

§  Project Information – Basic project information including: project name, number of photos, and total input gigapixels.

§  Photos and Collections – Information about the photos in each collection including: number of photos, focal length, distortion and coordinate system

§  Control Points – Basic ground control point, check point, and tie point information including: triangulation error and sampled photos.

§  Reconstruction – Basic reconstruction information including: reconstruction area, number of reconstruction tiles, number of fusers, and total processing time.

§  Aerotriangulation Results – Basic aerotriangulation information including: number of aerotriangulation tiles, calculated photos, and mean median error. Aerotriangulation information for each tile is also provided: original and calculated distortion values, error, and principal point, control point information, and maps that graphically depict information about photo matches, level of detail, position accuracy and more. Each map has three views: from the top, front, and left.

To view a Quality Report, do either of the following:

§  On the Home tab, in the Process group, click the arrow under Reports, and select Quality Report. A PDF is created in the project build's Report folder.

§  Select the required tile. See "Selecting Tiles" in this chapter. Then on the Tile tab, in the View group, click the arrow under Reports, and select Quality Report. The report displayed will display information only for the selected tile.