Flight Planning for LiDAR provides instructions for planning a flight to be used for LIDAR collection with a TrueView 3DIS. This section will provide guidelines for flight planning, followed by specific instructions for flight planning applications. The second section contains the TrueView Mission Planning Spreadsheet which can be utilized for calculating the line spacing, point density, swath width, GSD, vertical objects, etc based off of user defined flying height, overlap and speed.
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Summary 3 General Flight Planning Considerations 3 Line Spacing 3 Flying Height 3 Scan Angle 3 Side Overlap 4 Line Spacing Spreadsheet 4 Optimizing IMU Data 6 Box Turns 6 Short Flight lines 6 Optional Heading Alignment Maneuver in Flight Line 7 Boresite Calibration 8 Flight Planning Applications 10 DJI GS Pro 10 Litchi 10 Creating a mission in Mission Hub 11 Loading the Mission on the Mobile App 16 Mission Planner + Litchi 17 Mission Planner 17 Litchi 19 Q Ground Control – Waypoint Flight Planning 22 Q Ground Control – Survey Flight Planning 26 DJI Pilot 2 - Area Route 31 Support 34
TrueView Mission Planning Spreadsheet
The TrueView Mission Planning Spreadsheet which can be utilized for calculating the line spacing, point density, swath width, GSD, vertical objects, etc based off of user defined flying height, overlap and speed.
