"I have previously succeeded in using such a setup very effectively on a MicroPilot system where the autopilot was triggering the camera via a servo pressing the shutter button. The camera never failed to trigger. Aerial imagery should always be shot…"
"Hi. I'd just like to invite everyone here to also check out my related discussion on this topic which I started yesterday. My main point was that if your UAV is set up in such a way that the camera is triggered by the autopilot (either using an IR…"
"Thanks for the reply, iskess. I was beginning to suspect as much. I can see how the time offset approach would be useful in the absence of cam logs and in cases where the camera isn't being triggered by the autopilot.
"Ok, upon reading another related discussion further down this category, I realize that what I referred to as "positional offsets" (actually called "log offsets" in the Geo Ref Images dialog box) are simply a means of specifying the order in which…"
I’m new to ArduPilot but have a lot of prior experience collecting, georeferencing and mosaicking UAV aerial photos using other autopilots (chiefly MicroPilot).I note that ArduPilot has a very handy dataflash logging option (“CAMERA”) that will…