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Photogrammetry: Strange Question

Posted by Vincent Hoog on January 7, 2015 at 4:21pm

This is kind of a strange question for this group, but here goes.

I want to use an old ArduPilot Mega 2.0 I had never used and I want to use it to capture images for photogrammetry from a manned aircraft.

So I would like to use the Mission Planner and have the APM2 trigger the camera and write the metadata for use in Pix4D.

Since a human will be flying the aircraft (following the mission planner routing) can I do this without defining a drone platform during setup?

Or can I just select something and ignore it as the servo commands will not go anywhere?

Any info, thoughts, comments welcome.

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  • iskess January 7, 2015 at 5:28pm
    I've done this. You don't even need a flight plan, just set cam_trigg_dist to the gps distance you want. You can just set it up as a Plane, and ignore all the calibrations.
    • Vincent Hoog > iskess January 8, 2015 at 8:17am

      Thanks for your reply.

      - How did it work out for you? Get the results you wanted?

      - By using the Mission Planner helps with getting the desired resolution by defining the altitude and help define image overlap, no? Or how did you manage these parameters of the capture?

      Thanks

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