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Hello fellow UAVers,
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My UAV partner (Ross) and I have been working on a project that we'd love to get some feedback and additional ideas for. Our intention is to allow free access to this web based tool and also a really cheap subscription model per month (think $4 range) to support hosting costs and the large amount of cpu processing power needed to generate maps. The free users will get all the same features but lower resolution imagery and possibly less accurate georeferenced tiles/tiffs/added watermarks to support the site. No ads.

Our software and backend servers use tons of different open source packages to complete the process of georeferencing and building image mosaics. We are also trying to offer an "easy to use" UI to view each flight and all the associated data. We really hope you enjoy our ideas! We are planning to open the site up to beta users by request in a month or so. Please keep an eye out for more information on that.

We've been having some problems getting our own flight systems up and running, ranging from a bad MUX on an APM 1 (thanks for fixing!), APM2 delays, and code issues with the Tri-Copter platform. This has prevented us from getting amazing imagery on our own at this point. :( Lucky, the awesome guys at Petryx UAV posted a ton of sample imagery which is so cool! Pteryx FTP Sample Imagery

We can't wait to open the site to beta users so you can test your own imagery and flight paths, hopefully at that point we will have our own platform up and running!

So, here we go -- some screenshots and comments:

Upload your flight imagery and Ardulog/GPX/Petryx/CSV log file.
Imagery and Flight Processing Queue
Imagery Dashboard w/ Flight Path, GeoTIFF served via Geoserver, Blended and Georeferenced Mosaics

Same as above, different flight.

Georeferenced View w/ Google Earth API - Shows Tiles, Flight Path

Second Part of Georefenced View - Shows GeoTiff Mosaic Preview and Metadata

Third Part of Georeferenced View - Shows Additional Maps

Blended Mosaic

Our Tricopter platform. Quadcopter and also Skywalker platforms we've been testing!

Quadcopter w/ IR Powershot a490 Camera

We would love to hear some questions and comments!

Thanks for reading and thanks for your support,

DM Team (JP and Ross)

Hey everyone, thanks for all of offers of support and help testing! We've got a ton of interest. :)

We are working away on the site and should definitely have a usable service up around mid-march. :D We fully expect there to be plenty of bugs and interesting issues to deal with but things are looking pretty good so far. I hope as technology, our learning curve and sensors improve so will the site. I want to give any beta users a lifetime membership.

Pteryx workflow is pretty solid! Yay. I just received my APM2 today and Ross is getting some tiles with his Tricopter/Gimbal/APM1 which is helping us test the ArduPilot log workflow. I can't wait to get my quad flying! Many thanks again to Pteryx and Mavinci for some sample imagery. So helpful during this process. I've attached a few new screenshots, some are from the tricopter with Arducopter. Thanks

First Tiles From Tripcopter (maybe experiencing compass jump in the logs. Ross has details)

Flight Path w/ Imagery Matches as Points (can't see as really straight flight) - Elevation Profile of Image Coverage Flight -- Imagery Coverage Bounding Box -- Home Point

Pilot Profile (free and hobby users -- this service will be free and also have tiers to help with computing and bandwidth costs)

Sweet new Pteryx Flight using giscat log export!

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JP March 19, 2012 at 8:25am

Thanks Balazs, I have her deployed on the EC2 cloud. I just setup a mosaic only mode today so you can add just imagery to get a mosaic output. No flight logs required. Best,

JP
JP February 28, 2012 at 6:57pm

A couple new screenshots. Added a reports feature with extensive information on your flight, with PDF download/export. Also, doing some experimentation on the DEMS and added a color ramp display. In the future you can customize this and reprocess your imagery!

Private beta ready for mid-late March.. ( depending on the snow conditions. :D )

DEMs

Basic PDF Flight / Processing Report

Reports Detail Page 1

Flight and Imagery Bounding Box

KML Layer of Flight Coverage and Imagery Coverage

Enjoy!
JP February 26, 2012 at 6:50am

Thanks Rigel, I'll definitely do that. :)
JP February 24, 2012 at 10:02am

Hey everyone, thanks for all of offers of support and help testing! We've got a ton of interest. :)

We are working away on the site and should definitely have a usable service up around mid-march. :D We fully expect there to be plenty of bugs and interesting issues to deal with but things are looking pretty good so far. I hope as technology, our learning curve and sensors improve so will the site. I want to give any beta users a lifetime membership.

Pteryx workflow is pretty solid! Yay. I just received my APM2 today and Ross is getting some tiles with his Tricopter/Gimbal/APM1 which is helping us test the ArduPilot log workflow. I can't wait to get my quad flying! Many thanks again to Pteryx and Mavinci for some sample imagery. So helpful during this process. I've attached a few new screenshots, some are from the tricopter with Arducopter. Thanks

First Tiles From Tripcopter (maybe experiencing compass jump in the logs. Ross has details)

Flight Path w/ Imagery Matches as Points (can't see as really straight flight) - Elevation Profile of Image Coverage Flight -- Imagery Coverage Bounding Box -- Home Point

Pilot Profile (free and hobby users -- this service will be free and also have tiers to help with computing and bandwidth costs)

Sweet new Pteryx Flight using giscat log export!
JP February 20, 2012 at 2:48pm

@Tim Brown Thanks for the ideas Tim. I like that model too, it has crossed our mind and we'll will put some more thought into it. The only thing we know for sure is our goal to offer this sort of service to hobby pilots at a cheap price. (and free for lower resolution, watermarked imagery). We are exploring the best options for hosting a service like this and the it does require a lot of disk/cpu. :)

I have definitely been reading a lot of posts on publiclaboratory.org, I actually just followed the guide to build an IR Canon Powershot A490. :D Awesome site!!
JP February 20, 2012 at 7:40am

@Rigel, will do. My APM 2 just shipped. Thanks guys!
JP February 17, 2012 at 4:50am

@Krzysztof Bosak Thanks for that information! speaking of snow, I am off to go shred some powder on the sled. :D and I want to send a special thanks to Pteryx UAV! btw, I sent you an email with some additional information and images/metadata.

@Rigel Definitely will do, my partner in the project Ross is also starting to notice some of the issues you mentioned. Also the lack of <compass> reading in the gpx logs, there is a <course> tag but sometimes they are not the same. It would also be nice if the timestamp in the file was a true gps timestamp! Not an offset from midnight. (day of flight) We have two methods to parse the Ardulogs.. one is gpx and the other is the raw log file.

I can't wait to get the APM2 and see if the sensors/timing is better. Are you on APM1?

@Johanna Born Many thanks! We hope to have the service up and running soon and fully expect to work out many bugs. :) We are a two man team at this point. I have seen the MAVinci site before and think it would be a great idea to support your Autopilot as well. I will post some results from your sample imagery soon. Thx Again
Johanna Claussen February 17, 2012 at 4:31am

This is a really nice project and I think the community will benefit a lot if you are able to offer such a service!

If you want to test your system with some more sample images from UAVs, please feel free to process our sample imagery: ftp://mavinci.de/
T3

Krzysztof Bosak February 16, 2012 at 4:42pm

Wow.

BTW this REDSNOW case is really nasty, crab angles some 60 deg. Visually it stopped moving on the sky on one leg and we aborted the mission, 9m/s wind plus very lightly loaded and uptrimmed Pteryx was a no-go condition since the beginning.
JP February 16, 2012 at 5:17am

Good luck Andre! Thx. Keep me posted and we'll refer back to this thread for interest beta users. :)

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