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Orthomosaic vs Orthophoto: What Each Word Means

An orthophoto is one aerial photograph corrected to a map. An orthomosaic is many of them stitched into one image. Which one you have, and where the seams are.
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FOSS4G HiroshimaでKumoyの種をまいてきました - QGIS LAB by MIERUNE

はじめにみなさん、こんにちは。MIERUNEでQGISエンジニアをしている、フランス出身のLayです。日本語に不自然なところがあるかもしれませんが、すみません。FOSS4G Hiroshima 2026に、発表者とワークショップ講師として参加し、2026年4月にリリースしたQGIS向けクラウドサービス「Kumoy」を紹介しました。グローバルFOSS4Gへの参加は、2023年のFOSS4G Priz...
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Semantic vs Instance Segmentation on Aerial Imagery

Semantic segmentation labels every pixel with a class: building or not. Instance segmentation draws every building as its own object. On a terraced street the difference is one polygon against forty.
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AI Agent for QGIS: The Complete Guide

Describe a task in plain language and it runs in your open QGIS project: load data, run algorithms, style layers, build a layout. Every run can be undone.
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Greenfield vs Brownfield: The Difference, on a Map

A greenfield site has never been built on. A brownfield site has, and may still carry what the last use left behind. How to tell them apart in QGIS.
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How to Add a Basemap in QGIS: XYZ, WMS and Plugins

Browser panel, XYZ Tiles, double-click OpenStreetMap. Then Google, Esri and Bing by URL, national imagery by WMS, and which basemap a detection model can read.
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DSM vs DTM: The Difference, and Which One You Have

A DSM is the height of the top of everything: roofs, treetops, bare ground. A DTM is bare ground alone. Subtract one from the other to get what stands on it.
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Colored site plan: the same block four ways

Flat, watercolor, pencil and glossy, all rendered from one aerial image of Letchworth Garden City. Every prompt in full, and where the model invented water.
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Detect Solar Panels in QGIS: 5 Methods

Check OpenStreetMap first. Then four ways to map rooftop PV from aerial imagery in QGIS, with the menu paths and where each one fails.
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