GeoCue Brings Survey Grade Mapping to DJI Drones
This article was originally published in Geomatics World.
GeoCue is set to offer survey-grade mapping with their GNSS positioning system for DJI Phantom 4 Pro and Inspire drones that promises to be low cost, and with “minimum ground control.”
The Loki kit is self-contained and fully integrated, meaning it includes everything you need to equip your drone with a global positioning system. You will however still need your own base station, but that’s all it takes to achieve centimetre-level positioning.
Loki costs $4,995 and includes Septentrio’s AsteRx-m2 multi-frequency, multi-constellation GNSS engine, which offers a whopping 448 hardware channels for locking into satellites for positioning. It also boasts GeoCue’s proprietary system for detecting “camera events” from Phantom/Inspire drones and synchronizing them to GNSS positions.
For more technical details, see GeoCue’s blog post here. Loki is shipping to early adopter customers this month, with general availability in September 2017. The company is currently taking orders.
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