senseFly eBee - Flight Visualization in Google Earth

Advanced functionalities
panel of the Preferences pane of the menu. From this panel you can add,
remove, activate/deactivate or reorder overlays. eMotion uses the top-most el-
evation data layer to calculate altitude for each waypoint and flight line, with
eMotion’s default Improved SRTM elevation dataset always considered the bot-
tom layer.
Custom elevation
data
Network cache
4.4 Flight visualization in Google Earth
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eMotion includes an interface with Google Earth
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to help with flight plan verifi-
cation and visualization, particularly in uneven terrain. Clicking on the button
in the Toolbar will open Google Earth
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and zoom to the current position of the
drone. The current position of drone, its planned trajectory, the working area cir-
cle and all waypoints currently uploaded to the drone (including Take-Off, Start
and Home) are displayed within Google Earth
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. Any changes to waypoints or
flight parameters within eMotion are updated accordingly within Google Earth
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.
The interface with Google Earth
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is particularly useful to check the drone’s trajec-
tory with respect to obstacles in the area¹⁹. The flight plan is projected onto the
¹⁹ While checking flight plans in Google Earth
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is a good safety practice, senseFly Ltd provides no
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