Experimenting with 123d catch for photogrammetry rather than hypr3d.

This is a short video fly-through of a structure from the site of Maitlands Mesa, Jordan:

Actual results from the field...

I just got back to Amman after 2 weeks of digging, mapping and shooting at a site in Jordan. This was my first opportunity to apply some of this stuff on a project I was a part of.

The landscape was spectacular:

 

YMR descending the mesa to our campsite at the end of the day, with a view out into the wadi

and at least some of the photogrammetry stuff I shot using PAP (Pole Aerial Photography) is going to work. We shot a lot of low elevation PAP using a longer 8m fishing pole I bought just before heading out to the field. It looks like those shots (from 8m up) are great for publication quality vertical images of archeological features and excavation units:

 

But low angle shots really work best for photogrammetry. The following two models of structures we excavated were built using, primarily, photos taken from less than 3m above the ground: