There are many types of software that
are available in the market for managing and controlling your unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV). The following are some of the most commonly used software for
controlling UAVs.
UAV Control
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Airware: This forms a link between
the autopilots of the drones that were used in military and those being used by
the RC hobbyists.
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APM: Copter: this software has made
UAVs capable of a full range of flight and this can be used for advanced aerial
photography. This is one of the most sophisticated software and has the
capability of providing stability during photography.
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APM: Plane: this airplane gives all
the full fledged aircrafts the ability to be on full auto pilot. There is great
support for numerous 3-D way points, automatic takeoff and landing and mission
planning of the levels that are unmatched along with camera control.
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Open pilot: this is an autopilot that
has been created by a community that belongs to a group of volunteers and is
non-profit. This community is known as open pilot. This software is designed
especially for the rotor system that contains more than one rotor. The only
concern of the developers is to give to the client quality, safety and an easy
to use UAV.
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Paparazzi: this hardware plus
software combo is a great open source autopilot system that is aimed at being
used for fixed wing aircrafts and the UAVs. Since this is open source software
anyone can add or make any kind of changes to suit their needs. It is because
of the volunteers that this system is getting better day by day.
Ground Station
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Mission Planner: this software is for
the ground station and has been created by Michael Oborne. There are various
features that are the highlight of this software such as
o The way point entry is point and click type and you can use Google maps
for it.
o There are drop down menus that can be used to select the commands for
the mission.
o There is also the provision of downloading the log files for the mission
o The software allows you to configure the AM settings for the UAV.
Image Processing
·
Airphoto SE: this software is useful
for the UAVs used for the aerial photography and gives a great picture due to
all the features present that are necessary for the rectification of the
oblique aerial imagery with the geo referenced output. The best part is that it
allows for good quality large picture as there are four processors for
multithreading that can work on the different parts f the same large photo and
all at the same time. The various distortion factors can be controlled in this
software. This can be used both by the beginners and the experts in this field.
You can even combine your photos with maps, orthophotos or the pictures from
satellite.
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Fiji: this is software package that
is aimed at image processing. There is use of Java, Java3D and many plugins for
menu structure that is coherent in nature for the distribution of image J.
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Image J: this is a program that is
aimed at image processing and is available on the public domain. The main
feature of this software is that it can display, edit as well as analyze,
process and save the print in 8-bit, 16-bit as well as 32-bit. If you want to
know about the area and the value of the pixels in the selected area then this
software is capable of doing that too.
·
Kolor Utopani Giga: this image
stitching application of Kolor is considered to be the most advanced one. This
is best one to click panoramic images efficiently. The ease of use is also a
quality to be mentioned here.
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Mapknitter: this software that is
available as free and open source too is majorly effective when it comes to
mapping the image. This means that you will be able to locate the place on the
map where the photo must be placed.
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Correlator 3D is a patented software
by SimActive. It carries out aerial triangulation and is capable of producing
dense digital surface models, orthomosiacs as well as vectorized 3D features.
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Imagine Photogrammetry: this has integrated
software programs and thus gives best quality strong photogrammetry, GIS, image
processing as well as point cloud tools.
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Inpho UASMaster: when your UAS
collects the images this software creates the deliverables that match the
picture quality and efforts. This has great photogrammetic workstation but is
very easy to use.
·
Menci Software APS: this
photogrammetry software is a great tool for the processing of the large amounts
of UAV data and also processing images. This has been tested and is powerful.
The requirement of the GPS is a must for APS to handle ground facing data.
·
Menci Software OPK Suite: the large
format images can be easily processed by this software. This software can
produce photogrammetic products from the images obtained from satellite. It is
compatible with large cameras such as UltraCam, DMC, DIMAC or from the
satellites such as GeoEye, Ikonos, Quckbird etc.
·
Agisoft Photoscan: this software is
capable of photogrammetry of the digital images as well as generating 3D
spatial data. There are many features in this software such as
o Photogrammetric processing
o Dense point cloud: editing and classification
o Digital elevation model
o Georeferenced orthomosiac export
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CMPMVS: this multi-view
reconstruction software is known for receiving a set of images in a perspective
and the camera calibrations which aids in making a full scene. All the rigid
images and items are covered.
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DroneMapper: when the UAV clicks two
dimensional photos of the three dimensional landscape then this software offers
geospatial mapping solutions. The image processing is both operator assisted as
well as automatic one. The features include:
o High resolution digital elevation model
o Digital surface model
o Orthomosaic
o Point cloud creation from fixed wing
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