Applanix Introduces v3.0 for POSTrack with Aerial Mapping Support
April 29, 2010Aimed at simplifying and improving the productivity of aerial mapping operations, Applanix has introduced software version 3.0 for POSTrack, the company's Direct Georeferencing and Flight Management System.
To perform efficient and accurate mapping over rapidly changing terrain, especially mountainous and coastline areas, software version 3.0 for POSTrack incorporates a worldwide ASTER digital elevation model (DEM) product for flight planning, the company said. 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, v3.0 for POSTrack also automates the manual 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.
“The improved logistics, simplicity of use and accuracy using version 3.0 for POSTrack with DEM support greatly increases the productivity of aerial mapping” said Joe Hutton, Director of Airborne Products at Applanix.
In addition to the DEM support, version 3.0 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.
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