UGCS LIDAR MISSION!

hi everyone i am pretty excited today uh ugcs released a new release of their flight planning software version 4.4.232 if you didn't know they have included ways to plan lidar missions for both corridor and a general area so i just want to go through and show you how to plan one of those missions real quick so you can see how it goes and how easy it makes things i especially like using ugcs because i'm able to flight plan on a desktop so do all my pre-flight planning check out the topography because it does do dsms and it does pull from srtm databases and you know it's just pretty easy to use and especially now when we want to fly with lidar because you really want to do terrain following so let's get started um i'm just going to start something random i'm going to choose the m300 i'm just going to leave these settings and then now let's see so if you look at ugcs now you'll see they change these icons on the left and then there'll be two that you see right here you have the p and the l p is for photogrammetry l is for lidar area and then you have the option for lidar area and lidar corridor which is pretty sweet so let's start planning a lidar area so i have these settings already set up i have it set up to be flown with a yellow scan mapper so if we go through and we go look at the specs on the mapper so the l scan mapper on the m300 we have a scanner field of view is going to be field of view degrees 81.70 so i put that in there my flat altitude is going to be above ground and if we actually go here we have flight above ground 80 meters at five meters a second so when a net over 320 points per square meter so i'll be happy with that so 5 meters a second flight height 80. and in general i like to do 50 overlap just to make sure we have enough data coverage um over everything so after we do that let's just start clicking i have this area right here snake river so let's say we want to map this area double click then you right click to end so now if you look at the area right there now it's going to go through and plan out the mapping so if i fly this area at 80 meters with that field of view with the 50 overlap this is what the mission is going to look like it's pretty easy so now we don't have to kind of guess the side overlap that we need or really direct at the charts or look at this chart again to see you know um what flight height or or whatnot this is good to figure out your point density but in terms of flight planning there's a lot less that you have to think about now that they include the field of view and how this is set up right here so that is what it looks like for the area and then for actually the other thing is see these guys right here so when we fly with lidar you kind of have to before you start your mission and before you land after your mission um you have to do calibration flights and that is just to wake up the imu to make sure that it's awake and you know keeps a proper trajectory and collects the proper data a neat thing that they also included is this thing called loop turn angle right here and what it does is after all the straight sections it programs in a loop so after every straight section where you know the imu can get lazy and fall asleep and then you want to wake it up at the very end it does that loop to wake it up and then it goes on to the next one and it does a loop at the end of that so it constantly is re-waking up and recalibrating and getting that imu going again so that's kind of a neat feature that they do now and i like a lot i like how how this flight plan um or flight planning is done and then now we can go look at the quarter mapping one um so for the corridor mapping so let's click on light our corridor again i have this set for a 200 meters uh width um the same field of view same flight height same overlap and everything one thing right here in the camera it doesn't have the mapper if you actually go through a menu i'll go to my trees you can pick the yellow scan mapper in here too but it doesn't appear yet i'm hoping they'll update it again and get that all figured out but in terms of planning the corridor mission it's the same deal as all other missions so let's go through and click on this corridor double click again click and then right click to end it so then i'll go calculate my flight plan so if i want my data collection width to be 200 meters and take a look at that it'll go through and then we can go through and do show elevation 48 minute flight with terrain falling so that's kind of neat that they make it pretty easy like this to do one thing that i'd like to try out more is trying to go through and split this mission up um because at 48 minutes um that's going to be more than one flight so i'd like to split it up in general you can kind of pause it and then start it up at next waypoint but for me is i like to plan all my missions so for one single flight so i'll do one single flight i don't do the pause and and resume because sometimes it doesn't always work so i'll always plan multiple missions per project but yeah this is pretty neat if you take a look at it and yeah if you have any questions just let me know thank you

Channel: Jeremiah's Tutorials

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Length: 7min 6sec (426 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 23 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Afrdev]

This is great, thanks!

[u/adam_wylie]

Looks great! The little loop turns were pretty sweet too.

[u/thealexvond]

This is so cool! We just added a LiDAR specials to our team and I can’t wait to see what we can do when it comes to our missions and deliverables.

[u/Aerial_Actuator]

Like it, but have not found a way to specify the L1 (I have UgCS Enterprise). The camera options still show only cameras, no LiDAR units. Any suggestions? I'm sure I am missing something basic.