POSTrack with Digital Elevation Module Support

 

The DEM is used to automatically and quickly determine the optimal flight path to fly an aircraft to best meet the acquisition requirements of photo scale, ground sample distance and image overlap, ensuring that the highest quality map products are produced from each and every flight.

Using the DEM and real-time position and orientation information computed from the tightly-integrated POS AV GNSS-inertial system, software version 3.0 for POSTrack also automates the tasks of an aerial survey mission to include:
• maintaining forward overlap and ensuring that stereoscopic coverage is sufficient in the direction of flight
• ensuring there is enough lateral overlap and that there are no gaps due to terrain or pilot errors
• controlling the camera forward motion compensation system

Version 3.0 for POSTrack also includes productivity enhancements such as the ability to import background maps from Google Earth, and to export flight plans and actual coverage flown as KML files.