PHOENIX MISSION GUIDANCE

Improve Data Acquisition Instantly

In unmanned acquisition, a flight plan is commonly loaded into the UAV and executed by the flight controller with predictable velocity and accuracy. However, manned aircraft/vehicle acquisition adds a pilot/driver as an additional source of uncertainty.
Phoenix LiDAR Systems' MissionGuidance is designed to help streamline manned LiDAR data acquisition by supplying the pilot/driver with guidance information. The same flight plan that would be navigated by a UAV's flight controller is now visualized to the pilot relative to the vehicle's current position along with allowed tolerances, allowing fine adjustments in realtime.
A wide range of configuration options allows customizing the visualization to the pilots's preferences, while a deep integration into SpatialExplorer supports intuitive flight plan management by the sensor operator.

Mission Guidance Benefits

How does Mission Guidance Work?

Plan Faster

Load and review a flight plan in SpatialExplorer prior to flight. Users can organize the approach, check and adjust heights, and configure the interface as desired.

Make Adjustments Instantly

Real-time acquisition management by the sensor operator from within SpatialExplorer during flight: ensuring that all passes are successfully collected within tolerance and according to the plan, rescheduling lines as necessitated by weather or other external factors, and making in-flight decisions confidently.
 

How does Mission Guidance Work?

Plan Faster

Load and review a flight plan in SpatialExplorer prior to flight. Users can organize the approach, check and adjust heights, and configure the interface as desired.

Make Adjustments Instantly

Real-time acquisition management by the sensor operator from within SpatialExplorer during flight: ensuring that all passes are successfully collected within tolerance and according to the plan, rescheduling lines as necessitated by weather or other external factors, and making in-flight decisions confidently.
 

Improved Acquisition

ForeFlight

The trajectory produced using ForeFlight shows more deviation in the flightlines, leading to unnecessary overlap and worse, gaps in data coverage. This is because ForeFlight:
  • requires the pilot to control the camera in-flight
  • uses low-resolution heightmaps
  • displays no lane tolerances around flightlines
  • doesn't provide a look-ahead on terrain-changes

MissionGuidance

Using MissionGuidance results in a much more accurate flight pattern. No unnecessary overlap, no gaps.
  • uses high-resolution heightmaps
  • ensures all passes are successfully collected within tolerance
  • reschedules flightlines  for weather or other external factors

Resulting Data Accuracy

Resulting Accuracy

  • Manned aerial acquisition using RANGER-LR Lite
  • 200 checkpoints, worst separation 8/100th ft, so <2.5cm
  • LiDARSnap report on left shows interswath precision