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The first thing to do before mapping is to set up the camera parameters. Before to set up camera parameters, recommended resetting the all parameters on camera first. To set camera parameters manually need to set to manual mode. Image quality: Extra fine Shutter speed: to remove blur from photo shutter speed should be set for higher value. 1200–1600 is recommended. Higher the shutter speed reduce image quality . if there is blur in the image increase shutter speed ISO: lower the ISO higher image quality. ISO between 160–300 is recommended. if there is no blur but image quality is low, reduce ISO. Focus: Recommended to set the focus manually on the ground before a flight. Direct camera to an object which is far, and slightly increase the focus, you will see on camera screen that image sharpness changes by changing the value. Set the image sharpness at highest. (slide the slider close to infinity point on the screen you will see the how image sharpness changes by sliding) White balance: recommended to set to auto. On surveying mission Sidelap, Overlap, Buffer have to be set higher to get better quality surveying result. First set the RESOLUTION which you would like to get for your surveying project. When you change resolution it changes flight altitude and also effects the coverage in a single flight. Overlap: 70% This will increase the number of photos taken during each flight line. The camera should be capable to capture faster. Sidelap: recommended 70% Flying with higher side-lap between each line of the flight is a way to get more matches in the imagery, but it also reduces the coverage in a single flight Buffer: 12% Buffer increases the flight plane to get more images from borders. It will improve the quality of the map source: https://dronee.aero/blogs/dronee-pilot-blog/few-things-to-set-correctly-to-get-high-quality-surveying-results

TopoMapCreator (beta) A set of GIS tools that helps creating topographic map TopoMapCreatorThe TopoMapCreator consists of of 5 Programs: MapCreator, GeoToolsCmd, TopoMap, EcwToMobile and ExtendedMapCreator. More information for example about how to install it, you find under TopoMapCreator. Now read, what the 5 Programs are doing: 1. ExtendedMapCreatorExtendedMapCreator is a Desktop-Program, that creates "Topographic Maps" from OSM, NASA and ESA. You simply define a map extent by dragging over a browsable word map, click on start and wait till the GeoTIFF, ECW, GALILEO, ORUXMAPS or NAVIMAP files got created. ExtendedMapCreator is based on the Mapnik-Renderer, nevertheless all data downloading and processing is fully automatic. Click on ExtendedMapCreator to read more about the Program! 2. MapCreatorMapCreator is a GIS toolset. The tools have the common goal to create Topographic Maps. Currently it consists of 10 tools: The GeoreferencingTool georeferences scanned map series. The EcwHillshaderTool adds hillshades to a map. The SrtmHillshadesTool creates hillshades. The EcwToMobileTool converts a map to a Smartphone App Format. The GeonamesToShapeTool creates a shapefile from a GeoNames file. The ShapeToOsmTool creates an OSM file from shapefiles. The WarpEcwTool warps (reprojects) huge maps. The RussianMapsCreatorTool downloads and processes Russian maps. The QgisToEcwTool makes a Print-Screen of a qGis view. The USGSTopoMapTool downloads and processes USGS maps. Click on any of the tools to know more about it! 3. GeoToolsCmdGeoToolsCmd provides the same GIS toolset as the MapCreator, but accessible over the Command-Prompt. With GeoToolsCmd it is possible to write batch files. 4. TopoMapTopoMap is simple Desktop-Program to download specific Maps. 5. EcwToMobileEcwToMobile is a simple Desktop-Program to convert an ECW file to a Mobile App Format. The program is redundant to the EcwToMobileTool. darksabersan.

Hi Darksabersan, the links are dead, could you reactivate and perhaps upload to a different site like Mega.nz, please? thanks