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postflight: import your MD flight data

Steps to be taken:
1. Save your flight data & open your generated flight plan process
2. import your flight data for processing & continue the postprocessing



1. save your flight data

Having a look at the folder structure of your generated project, you can easily see where to put your 'flight' files after the flight. Put the images in the flight 'number' directory together with the Photolist / that you generated in the most recent version of MD Cockpit.



Take care of the number of photos / flights that you import to postprocess. If your pc calculation time is not that high, it will cause a long process time.
Be sure that the number of photo's in the photolist are equal to the number of photo's in the flight directory. Delete also manual triggers out of the photolist or flightlog.




2. open your generated flight plan process


Click on the wheel icon and reactivate your generated flight project. Select the saved *name*.oup file in your directory to open . You can also drag and drop the *name*.oup file in the sidebar to open.

After opening your flight plan, go to the post tab to start the postprocessing of your data .

During the loading of your project, the 'loading project…' will be active in the sidebar as shown below; wait untill finished.






3. import flight data

After saving your flight data and photolist at the right folder, the processing can start. Push the import flight data button and click on start. The software will now compare the images timestamps and the given image orientation data to:

  • Check for missing images
  • Rename all the images starting from '1.jpg'.
  • Transform all given orientation data into the format (e.g. CRS) that Orbit UAS Mapping needs.
  • Covert the *.jpg images to the *.omi format. OMI stands for Orbit Multiresolution Image. This resource type is developed by Orbit GT for encoding and fast viewing of rasters and images (any size).
If you press the 'Start' button and all images become imported, be aware that the flight plan parameters will be frozen. This means that it will not be possible anymore to change the pre-flight data. This is to keep the project consistent.

If import has already been done, you will get the warning of import.




The postprocessing project will be created and shown in your mapcanvas. You will see that two extra layers will be add to your datasetlist.

You can change colors or transparancy of these layers via the legend editor of Orbit (right mouse click on the layer). These layers are created based on the values given by EO file.

If you get an error “file format error”, be sure that the number of photo's in the photolist or flightlog are equal to the number of photo's in the flight directory. Delete also manual triggers out of the photolist or flightlog.

To check the raw material (image and XYZ coordinates), please have a look at the video tutorial below. Via the 'show hyperlink document' you can open all raw images and check the quality.





To continue the postprocessing, go to posttab page.

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