Drone Mapping

Terms

• SPC (State Plane Coordinate System) - mapping projection that mimizes distortion [1]
  • These are expressed in ASCII feature, point, X, Y, Z location. [2]
• UTM - Universal Transverse Mercator projection [3]
• File types used in satellite mapping - [4]. Application/geo+json is used by GIS?
• File formats are mainly raster or vector [5]
• 20 commonly used file formats exist for GIS software. Open and proprietary, hybrid (owned by a a company but open). Text files include XML, JSON
• Files openable by QGIS - vector data, in various containers. Can be text, can be ESRI Shapefile, etc. [6]
• SPC format is

Missouri SPC Dataset

(other states should be available)

• Link - [7]

DJI Mini

• Mini data can be processed in DroneDeploy to create maps - [8]

Other

Open source path generation and datapoint visualization from IRNAS.

https://www.irnas.eu/iot-drone-mapping/

See Also

• Open Source Drone Construction Set