I am writing a software for ArduPilot aerial survey flight planning, I intend to make it FREE for download for DIYDRONES community. This software would be similar to commercially available programs for Micropilot based Cropcam UAV. I would like to know what kind of features you would be looking for. Your feedback would be very helpful.
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In case the excel workbook might be of interest also to others, here it is.
The spreadsheet is not advanced, just something I made for fast calculations when planning aerial photo missions. I start by calculating the distance between flight lines and each triggerpoint/photo. (Input; camera parameters, flight height and -speed, etc). Then the waypoints are built to correspond.
Note; I originally developed this for the T3-4 competition for my EasyUAV, (EZStar using a flexipilot autopilot). It has the ability to loop over waypoints, so I just used 6 or 7 waypoints which was looped over a number of times. I do not know how this will relate to programming of other ap's.
The resulting flight-pattern can be viewed here: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/t3-round-4-map-a?id=705844%3ABl...
Photomission planning.xls
Fouad,
Mail sent, hope it might be of some help
Nice post,
As a start:
- Focal length of camera.
- Flying height above datum or photo scale for certain elevation.
- Size of photo.
- Size ans shape of area to be photographed.
- Expected diff. from nadir photo
- Overlap.
- Sidelap.
=> Flight pattern generation
=> Trigger settings
I have excel sheet that I use for this type of calculations. If you PM an e-mail adress, I can send it
hi, I know this is an old thread, but can email me your excel sheet ?
I have done a few aerial geographic surveys using an autopilot in a Telemaster airframe. I did the mission planning by hand. Your efforts would be very welcome.
If you have specific questions, I'll try to answer them based on my experience.
Having never seen a cropcam setup I'm not sure what the general functionality you are talking about is...
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