Litchi: Step by Step Guide (Survey Mapping Made Simple Book 8)

This book will take your survey mapping with a drone to a whole new level. If you want to be in complete control of a survey mapping mission, then LITCHI is the means to do that.Knowing how to manually setup a 3D mapping solution for a given flight using LITCHI will help you to fully appreciate the apps that provide automatic solutions. There are many applications available such as Ground Station Pro, DroneDeploy, Pix4Dcapture, and others. These applications provide automated flight paths once you select the drone, flight altitude, front and side overlap. The takeoff, heading, flight speed and landing are all taken care of for you. What if you wanted more control over the flight operation? What if you wanted to control the flight speed, camera capture intervals and so forth? LITCHI will give you full control over the entire flight from design of the flight path, heading of the drone, flight speed, altitude changes during flight, camera capture intervals, take off and landings. There is a bit more work involved in setting up LITCHI to do these things however the rewards are worth it. A thorough understanding of the image neat area is also required. This book will walk you through the steps needed to use LITCHI for survey 3D mapping.