from chock to chock. A total of 5600 20mb images were captured.
Control points were kindly provided by the client. These were issued in Local Grid Mauritius 2012 as well as UTM and consisted of concreted âTâ designs in the fields as well as on the road edges. A total of 50 were evenly distributed over the site.
Processing of this enormous amount of data was handled by our in house supercomputer in more manageable sections rather than as a whole. These sections were later aligned with each other to form a complete model of the site. The end pointcloud consisted of half a billion points. The client received their end deliverables 14 days after being commissioned to undertake the work.
It was noted that in this survey, that having the consent and cooperation of ATC greatly decreased our concern in the field of a collision or of penalization. Having communication with other aircraft and being able to broadcast our intentions removed a lot of stress from our workload and was appreciated by other aircraft in the area, by being able to understand our location and operations. By having an understanding of the general altitudes and positions of manned aircraft, we could focus on our own piloting more accurately.
Having good and reliable C2 (Command and Control) increased our ability to control the aircraft over much longer distances. Trims to both control surfaces as well as the throttle needed to be constantly altered during the flights due to the large wind gusts that were experienced to maintain efficiency.