User's Manual

Contents
I Quick start guide 17
1 Planning and simulating a flight 19
1.1 Installing eMotion, Postflight Terra 3D, and the ground modem
drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.2 The eMotion interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.3 Creating a new flight plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.4 The mission phase of a flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.5 Simulating your flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.6 Getting ready for a mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2 Executing a flight 28
2.1 Weather check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.2 Preparing the eBee for flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.3 The setup phase of a flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.4 Take-off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.5 In-flight monitoring and control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.6 Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
2.7 Potential in-flight errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3 Processing image data 49
3.1 Importing images and flight data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.2 In-field image quality check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.3 Creating advanced mapping products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54