senseFly eBee - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Contents
I Quick start guide 17
1 Planning and simulating a flight 18
1.1 Installing eMotion, Postflight Terra 3D, and the ground modem
drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.2 The eMotion interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.3 Creating a new flight plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.4 The mission phase of a flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.5 Simulating your flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.6 Getting ready for a mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2 Executing a flight 27
2.1 Weather check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.2 Preparing the eBee for flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.3 The setup phase of a flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.4 Take-off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.5 In-flight monitoring and control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.6 Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.7 Potential in-flight errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3 Processing image data 48
3.1 Importing images and flight data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.2 In-field image quality check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.3 Creating advanced mapping products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53