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Flight Planning Software for ArduPilot Aerial Mapping

Posted by Fouad Mahmud on March 1, 2011 at 11:03am

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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  • Doug Carter March 6, 2011 at 6:16am
    I would like to be able to click in a live feed and get an estimated LAT/LOG position for that target that I clicked on.
  • brakar March 4, 2011 at 6:34am

    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

  • brakar March 4, 2011 at 12:48am

    Fouad,

     

    Mail sent, hope it might be of some help

  • brakar March 1, 2011 at 11:56pm

    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

    • MOHD MIRZA ABDUL RAHMAN > brakar March 1, 2014 at 9:25pm

      hi, I know this is an old thread, but can email me your excel sheet ?

  • The Old Flyer March 1, 2011 at 6:02pm
    I assume that you know the characteristics of the software provided by http://www.lentsika.ceped.it/

    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.
    Lentsika by CePED
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    Doug Weibel March 1, 2011 at 4:22pm
    What would it do differently than the flight planning tools we have now (QGroundControl, HappyKillmore's GSC, Mike O's Planner)?

    Having never seen a cropcam setup I'm not sure what the general functionality you are talking about is...
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