Hey guys, I'm a german student and currently working on my bachelor thesis. What we want to do is creating an app for android, where a user is presented with an satellite image (using google maps api) of his nearby area. He then can draw a path on the map and when he's done he can give the drone the signal to start flying over the drawn path autonomously. While the drone is flying the image of the drone's camera is streamed to the android device so the user can monitor the flight. That's where we are right now.
I don't know if I can give away what the final purpose of this app will be but for the final release we need way better gps accuracy so our university has offered us the possibility to use SAPOS to get DGPS correction data which brings me to my questions because as a GPS amateur I find it hard to understand what's happening:
1. The correction data shall be streamed over the internet to my android device via Ntrip. According to my understandind this should lead to an improvement of my gps accuracy on the android device but not of the drone's gps. I understand that this correction data is sent to my device via Ntrip but what do I have to do with this data to get better GPS accuracy and how does it look like? All I read is you get the data and boom you have better GPS, but you surely have to do something with this data or am I wrong?
2. Is there a possibility to transfer the correction data to the drone so the drone's GPS is better, too?
I'm sorry if my english is not correct but I think you all get the point.
I'm thankful for every help that I can get :)
Cheers and have a great day!
PS: I'm using the standard Bebop Drone, so not Version 2
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