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Mapping Mission Ride Along

Posted by Matt Gunn on May 18, 2013 at 10:00pm

Here's my 1st mapping test flight with a Skyhunter twin-boom pusher. Im running Arduplane 2.73. Mapping camera is a Canon s95 running an intervalometer script via chdk. Its suspended from a single axis gimbal that keeps the camera pointing down regardless of aircraft bank angle. Video shot from a GoPro 3 Black Edition.

It took 120 photos during the 10 minute flight, and stitched with PT GUI. I need to refine my grid spacing and polygon locations relative to the target area, and intervalometer timing. The generated map is a little rough, but its a great start.

 I gave up on using the APM trigger at 3m from waypoint function as I couldn't get it to work and there's just no documentation on it.

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  • Jarrett Totton January 12, 2014 at 7:17am

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3KNAnFuYjllRXFCXy1GQ3VLek0/edit?u...

    this is a link to the point cloud. Here is a link to the software to view it:

    http://appliedimagery.com/download

  • Jarrett Totton January 11, 2014 at 7:15pm

    This was all done with Agisoft photoscan pro. I used google earth to find some coordinates to use as ground control points. If you get another flight done I would be interested in working with the imagery you collect. If you want I could also share with you a copy of the 3D point cloud (a LAS file) shown in the video. To open it you will need QT Reader a free piece of software from a company called Applied Imagery.

  • Jarrett Totton January 11, 2014 at 7:06pm

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3KNAnFuYjllc21RMEFpb0xqejA/edit?u...

    Here is an orthophoto I made. It is a kmz file that is about 180mb.

  • Matt Gunn December 13, 2013 at 5:01pm
    I dont, but i will do a new flight soon.
    I assumebyou are using the professional edition?
  • Jarrett Totton December 13, 2013 at 4:38pm

    I am using Agisoft Photoscan. I am really liking it. If you have a tracklog from that flight it would work even better.

  • Matt Gunn December 12, 2013 at 6:45pm
    Jarrett, sorry for the late reply.myour 3d map looks great.what program?
  • Jarrett Totton September 20, 2013 at 1:26pm

    3D PDF

    Here is a link to a 3D pdf that I made seems that no one else has delivered after asking for the data. If I had a gps tracklog I might be able to geocode the photos and create a more accurate model with actual location data.

  • mc_don August 6, 2013 at 2:25pm

    nice 

  • Anderl June 3, 2013 at 8:09am

    @Chris

    Very good instructions. Thanks.

  • Matt Gunn June 1, 2013 at 2:09pm

    absolutely. If I can just find a point and shoot canon without optical image stabilization (OIS) that has the quality and megapixels (or better quality) of the S95, Ill be set! If I do find one, it needs to be the exact width or smaller to fit my gimbal...

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