We had a great field day with the GES 485 class on Saturday flying the Hexakopter at the Herbert Run site and developing field work and 'ground-synthing' techniques.
The weather was actually quite good for a data collection. The sky was overcast and there was no wind, meaning that the Hexakopter was able to stay on track and the light was relatively diffuse so there are few shadows in the images. I gave a large set of about 2000 photos to Photoscan for processing on Saturday afternoon and it is still running. This is a great software, but I don't yet have enough of my own benchmarking data with large sets to really test out how it is going to work. I hope the point cloud looks good!
Regarding our Xbee testing, I used the MKUSB to upload waypoints, but then discovered that when I power down and then power back up to swap out the battery and plug in the wireless Xbee module I cannot read waypoints from the MK, or they are not stored on board. But, I was able to upload waypoints wirelessly with the new Xbee configuration and the real-time telemetry communication during the flight was OK. At least the current setup is no worse than what we had before. More to come.