April 9th, 2018, Published in Articles: PositionIT
Septentrio was selected by Wingtra to supply GNSS OEM receiver boards and PPK processing software for the new WingtraOne PPK drone. The combination of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) technology and a high-spec post-process kinematics (PPK) brings wide-area coverage at high precision. The AUV incorporates the AsteRx-m2 UAS OEM board, which is well suited to photogrammetry applications requiring high-precision, low-latency positioning. The board is designed for quick and easy integration. In a one-hour flight, this UAV can cover 130 ha (delivering mapping with GSDs below 1 cm/px, with absolute accuracy down to 1,27 cm. Following a flight, the GNSS data of the UAV is processed offline using the PPK software. This combines the UAV data with correction data from a nearby reference receiver to get accurate cm-level geolocations for every photograph. The on-board high-resolution Sony RX1RII camera, AsteRx-m2 UAS receiver board combined with Septentrio’s PPK library and Pix4D photogrammetry processing software are able to produce ground precisions of 1,3 cm horizontally and 2,3 cm vertically.
Contact Contact Neil Vancans, Septentrio, neil.vancans@septentrio.com