install_instructions_vissatsatellitestereo.md

Installation Instructions for VisSatSatelliteStereo

• Install GDAL

  • Option 1: (Recommended)
    • conda install gdal libgdal
      • Activate (or re-activate) your conda environment and make sure gdal environment variables are correctly configured
        • echo $PROJ_LIB
      • RESTART Pycharm to parse the current environment variables!
    • Tested versions: GDAL 3.3.2 with Python 3.8
  • Option 2:
    • Follow the original GDAL install instructions here
    • Tested versions: GDAL 2.4.2 with Python 3.6, released 2019/06/28

• Install VisSatSatelliteStereo

  • Option 1: Updated VisSatSatelliteStereo (Recommended)
    • Clone the repository
      • git clone -b main git@github.com:SBCV/VisSatSatelliteStereo.git
      • pip install -r requirements.txt
    • Use our SatelliteSurfaceReconstruction/requirements.txt instead of VisSatSatelliteStereo/requirements.txt
  • Option 2: Original VisSatSatelliteStereo
    • Note: Supports only numpy versions < 1.20
    • Latest tested version of VisSatSatelliteStereo: commit c6cb1b4
    • Clone the repository
      • git clone https://github.com/Kai-46/VisSatSatelliteStereo
      • pip install -r requirements.txt
        • For Python 3.8 use our SatelliteSurfaceReconstruction/requirements.txt instead of VisSatSatelliteStereo/requirements.txt
  • For both options, make sure to ADJUST/REMOVE the --SiftExtraction.num_threads 32 parameter in colmap_sfm_commands.py
    • See this issue