Mornin' folks,
Our group recently purchased a drone kit for research (Photogrammetry) and we are having some issues. The package itself contains: Matrice M600 Pro, Ronin-MX, D-RTK, Canon EOS 5D mk4.
Package flies great, but we are having some issues with mission planning and remote capture. Our goal is to be able to plot a flight grid in a mission planner (like DroneDeploy or Map Pilot) and set intervals for photos with some set overlap. This is clearly possible in the applications, as it very clearly tells us how many photos will be taken during the mission in order to give the set overlap coverage across our target area. The problem is when the drone is actually flying the mission, it does not actually take the pictures. I've dug around on various forums and it seems that the answer is simply that unless you use a proprietary DJI camera there is no ability to shoot automatic intervals set in the mission planning software. The problem here is that the DJI cameras are quite lacking and not able to perform precise photogrammetry. We are currently aware of the fix using the Ninja OBC and Sony A7R, but we are curious if anyone else has figured out a workaround that doesn't require another proprietary system (which they will not sell separately anyways).
A secondary question that is less related, but throwing it out there for people who may have experience. We are currently using the D-RTK alongside the A3 flight controller. The D-RTK documentation states that when a photo is taken it records precise position and time information for each photo which can then be used in geocoding photos. Is there a way to integrate this such that we can feed these GPS locations into our lidar computer and geocode lidar shots, or is this impossible.
Thanks a bunch!
Our group recently purchased a drone kit for research (Photogrammetry) and we are having some issues. The package itself contains: Matrice M600 Pro, Ronin-MX, D-RTK, Canon EOS 5D mk4.
Package flies great, but we are having some issues with mission planning and remote capture. Our goal is to be able to plot a flight grid in a mission planner (like DroneDeploy or Map Pilot) and set intervals for photos with some set overlap. This is clearly possible in the applications, as it very clearly tells us how many photos will be taken during the mission in order to give the set overlap coverage across our target area. The problem is when the drone is actually flying the mission, it does not actually take the pictures. I've dug around on various forums and it seems that the answer is simply that unless you use a proprietary DJI camera there is no ability to shoot automatic intervals set in the mission planning software. The problem here is that the DJI cameras are quite lacking and not able to perform precise photogrammetry. We are currently aware of the fix using the Ninja OBC and Sony A7R, but we are curious if anyone else has figured out a workaround that doesn't require another proprietary system (which they will not sell separately anyways).
A secondary question that is less related, but throwing it out there for people who may have experience. We are currently using the D-RTK alongside the A3 flight controller. The D-RTK documentation states that when a photo is taken it records precise position and time information for each photo which can then be used in geocoding photos. Is there a way to integrate this such that we can feed these GPS locations into our lidar computer and geocode lidar shots, or is this impossible.
Thanks a bunch!