Aloha, I’m a grad student at the university of Hawaii and I’m using a 3DR X8+ with a FLIR thermal imaging camera with Teax thermal capture data collection system connected to it. It is being used to map cold water anomalies along the coastline of Maui. I’m working with a couple professors on this project and we have been attempting to mosaic the images I’ve collected so that they can be georeferenced for surface area calculations in ArcGIS, but there are a lot of difficulties involved.
The biggest issue is that the camera is not set to be triggered by the copter as per a normal aerial mapping mission with the X8 mapper setup due to the type of camera and data collection system being used. Mosaicing is not going as planned and I am now attempting to access the pitch, roll and yaw data so that we can use that info to project the images appropriately. The main problem I’m having is understanding the format in which the tlog files are created when exported out as a CSV file format and opened in excel.
I need to attempt to link images with the corresponding pitch roll and yaw by comparing time stamps of the tlog file with the image data files. Is this a lost cause? or is there an easy way of extracting out just the basic pitch, roll, yaw, lat and lon in a format that is understandable and perhaps user friendly? I’m using Mission Planner 1.3.31 to access the tlog files.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!