I am looking to eliminate completely the dependence on OptiSurface ($1000 software) by working out a hauling algorithm. For that I need lots of datasets. If anyone is willing to help with this by sending me their raw survey data then I would greatly appreciate it! The more data I can get the better the chance I have of solving this part of the puzzle!
I have five fields of my own. If I can get another 15 fields then I think that would really get me started on this.
Just to clarify my last post - I will add surveying and plane generation to AgGrade, so OptiSurface won’t be needed to use it. But what I currently can’t add is the haul path calculations. These are not required to move soil but take out a lot of the guesswork of which direction to move it in.
Even if you have OptiSurface, getting the haul arrows out of the software is a massive pain because it requires zooming in, exporting a georeferenced image, zoom out, move over, zoom in, again and again, then manually removing the legend in an image editing program. I don’t think they ever intended for them to be exported, which is weird.
I need to replicate the interpolation of survey points that happens in Optisurface. Turns out that it is a bit of a pain when the person who did the survey on my field allowed gaps bigger than 50ft between a lot of the points.
To get the output the code has to interpolate, smooth, warp back to the survey points and smooth again. The result is all heights in this output at the survey point locations are 1cm or less difference from the original survey point heights. I haven’t checked to see if Optisurface gets that accuracy.
Added import of AGD files (i.e. from Optisurface). This takes the AGD file and any optional geo-referenced haul arrow images and generates the AgGrade field. Andy
Added a new map style - “completion”. This screenshot isn’t a good example but you can see some specks of green. Red = location at original height, orange = location between original and target heights, green = location at target height.