UgCS Expert Lidar Planning Tutorial

[@bashardawood8743]

This is a great video, thank you so much.

[@spearwarrior3560]

Appreciate the info content you create, recently got my part 107 and learning about doing surveyting

[@DroneMappingTools]

Thank you sir! Welcome to the 107 community!

[@amadoudame]

Thanks for the tutorial

[@worakrithabsuwan4488]

Grate Tutorial

[@torecrash6493]

Thumbs up !!

[@samuelnonie6270]

Hi. I've been following your tutorials. Great content. How do I add the camera trigger if I want to colorize my pointcloud?

[@DroneMappingTools]

Hi Samuel, what setup are you flying? Are you flying with a Lidar unit and separate camera mounted simultaneously?

[@samuelnonie6270]

@@DroneMappingTools Yes I'm flying a Topolidar 100 and DJI X4S Camera

[@DroneMappingTools]

@@samuelnonie6270 Nice setup! I use the same sensor in my lidar mapping missions for engineers. I actually prefer to fly a separate mission for photogrammetry because I am usually flying the TopoLidar sensor at 175-200 feet and flying at 400' for the photogrammetry mission. If you capture both at the same time you will have way more lidar data than you need. It can be counterproductive to accuracy and alignment to have overlap that is too high in Lidar. But if you did want to run both, at the bottom of the Lidar area in UgCS, you would will see the different camera actions. You must 1) Click on SET CAMERA ATTITUDE and set it to desired angle, ie 90°. 2) Click SET CAMERA BY TIME (or Distance). I prefer TIME. You must also have the X4S selected in the CAMERA section up in the middle of Lidar Area options. Now your flight plan is based on the camera overlap and not the Lidar overlap. And I'm sure you know this, but this is not colorizing in real time. The images will have to be stitched in photogrammetry software and then you will colorize the point cloud. I hope this helps. The TopoLidar 100 is an amazing sensor and produces superb results!