EnsoMOSAIC UAV

EnsoMOSAIC UAV software reads aerial images taken with compact cameras carried on-board Unmanned Aerial Systems, and processes them into seamless image mosaics.

As input EnsoMOSAIC UAV requires:

• Images, in any common format
• GPS coordinates, from flight log of any autopilot model
• Camera parameters, estimated or calculated with RapidCal

EnsoMOSAIC UAV includes UAV2EM filter to convert most common UAV autopilot flight logs into EnsoMOSAIC. Supported UAVs and autopilots are listed in UAV2EM status report.

In addition, these parameters can be used in the process, but are not required:

• Initial image orientation, i.e. Roll-Pitch-Yaw or Omega-Phi-Kappa, to decrease processing time and improve accuracy
• Ground control points, to improve accuracy

EnsoMOSAIC UAV processes automatically the images into orthorectified image mosaics, which have map coordinates and are thus GIS-ready and viewable immediately e.g in Google Earth.

EnsoMOSAIC applies photogrammetric principles, in contrary to image stiching which is commonly used for UAV images. Stiched images are often visually pleasing but contain distortions, i.e. are not suitable for area or distance measurements. EnsoMOSAIC does not stich but rectifies images into orthomosaics, which are free of distortion also in areas with elevation variations. This is possible because EnsoMOSAIC calculates an elevation model within the rectification process. Orthorectification creates very high accuracy orthophotos and orthomosaics, which can be used in the most demanding topographic mapping projects.

EnsoMOSAIC UAV contains the same and full functionality as do the other EnsoMOSAIC licenses. Software is already applied and is fully compatible with all kind of UAVs: drones, helicopters and fixed-wing models.

Please refer to the Download page to see a set of short videos of image processing with EnsoMOSAIC.