Requires an LP360 Drone, LP360 Land Basic or LP360 Land Standard license.
After the import is complete, the flight files will be displayed in the map view. A WMS layer will be displayed behind the data so the user can see approximately where flight path occurred (Figure 1). The white box on the left side of Figure 1 is the Table of Contents (TOC), the map area on the right is referred to as the Map View. Each layer in the TOC is named after the Cycle date and time, with a name appended to the end that represents the type of information contained in the layer and prepended by the Area Name (Area_Name_Cycle_Flight). A layer can be selected by left clicking on the desired layer until it is highlighted. Once selected, right-click the layer and select Feature Analyst to open the Feature Analyst dialog to review the attributes of features on the layer.
Figure 1 – TOC and Map View
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Photos Layer – This layer contains information about each photo and photos can be viewed in Feature Analyst. The icons in the Map View represent the location each photo was taken, using the navigation grade solution (real-time) of the TrueView Position and Orientation System (POS). If your sensor has multiple cameras, you will see an icon for each photo from each camera. Thus, if you zoom in on the display, you will usually see photo icons close together. This occurs because TrueView sensors with multiple cameras usually fire the cameras at approximately the same time. You can quickly inspect information about any feature in LP360 by selecting the Identify
tool on the LP360 Navigation toolbar, left clicking the item you wish to inspect and viewing the attribute data in the Info pane of the TOC. This is illustrated for a photo in Figure 3.
- Trajectory Points Layer – TrueView and microdrones sensors collect a location point every second based on the real-time navigation position information from the Position and Orientation System. You can select a Trajectory Point with the info tool to show metadata such as location and height in the info pane of the TOC. These points can be used to Manually Create Flight Lines.
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Log Points Layer – TrueView and microdrones Sensors collect information about the status of operations throughout the flight. This log file is a simple text file stored within the Cycle directory. You can examine the entire log by right clicking the LogPoints layer in the table of contents and selecting Feature Analyst
or from the Feature Edit Tab. Like all data in Feature Analyst, you can drive the log to a specific entry by selecting a point in the Map View. Each entry within this file has a time tag. During import of a Cycle, the log file is correlated with the Trajectory Points data and spatially displayed as a layer in the TOC. The log file can provide valuable insight into sensor operations (voltages, temperatures) as well as diagnostics when something goes wrong. This layer will not be created for DJI and Other systems. The Log Points layer is turned off by default for performance reasons as they typically have a very large number of features on them.
- Trajectory Line Layer – Shows the real-time trajectory from the beginning to the end of the Cycle.
- WMS Layer – A WMS backdrop layer, such as Google Hybrid or Bing Aerial with Labels, allows the user to check the flight for coverage and rough location.
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Pilot Log - Review the Pilot Log File
from imported TrueView Cycles. These logs can be created by the pilot in the field using the TrueView Web UI.
- Layer toggle On/Off – Each layer can be toggled on/off and viewed independently by toggling the checkbox next to the layer.
- Layer in Map – Each layer is plotted on the map view as shown in (Figure 1) in the order they are listed, from top to bottom, in the TOC.
Figure 2 – Feature Analyst
Figure 3 - Inspecting a Feature
Enabling Single Cycle Mode on the Sensor Tab will display layers relevant to the Active Cycle making for efficient review of the layers for each imported Cycle/Mission.
Repeat the Import Cycle Wizard to add more flights to the same project. After the data has been imported and the files have been examined, follow the applicable workflow for your data type(s):
- TrueView 3DIS® Processing Workflow
- Wingtra LiDAR and Other Workflow
- DJI Zenmuse L1/L2 Processing Workflow
- TrueView 2DIS and DJI-RTK Processing Workflow
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