3. Icon description#

This chapter describes the colored icons displaying sensor status information and the use of the icons for display control of flight lines in the operator and pilot display.

3.1. Sensor status information#

The icons in the upper right corner of the Navigator program show the status of each group of sensors:

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  • GPS - INSS

  • CAM - Camera(s)

  • MNT: SOMAG mount

  • SCN: Riegl scanner(s)

3.1.1. Status of GPS - INSS#

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No GPS available

GPS has an error

IMU alignment is degraded

IMU alignment is aligned for full nav

3.1.2. Status of CAM -Camera(s)#

3.1.2.1. Different statuses für UltraCam camera#

To display the current and previous status of the camera the two boxes of the CAM icon are used. The smaller, upper box shows the previous status. There might be an error or warning which has not been handled by the user. The larger, lower box shows the current status of the camera.

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Upper box: shows a previous, possibly unhandled status

Lower box: shows the actual status of the UltraCam

Lower box: Actual status of the camera

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No camera is available.

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The camera is available but not yet connected to SensorHandler.

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The camera is not ready to take images. Change camera to ready mode to take images.

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Lower box, green font on gray background: the camera is ready to take images. The airplane is outside the line of flight. Manual image triggers are possible.

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Lower box, gray font on green background: the camera is on the line of flight or close to it. It is ready to take images. No manual triggers can be released.

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Lower box: orange color means that the camera issued an information or warning. Check the UltraCam terminal to get more information on the issue.
Left image: The airplane is outside the line of flight.
Right image: the camera is on the line of flight or close to it.
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Lower box: There is an error with the camera. Check the UltraCam terminal to get more information on the issue.

Upper box: previous status of the camera

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Upper box green: the camera is running without errors. No previous unhandled error, warning or information has been detected.

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Upper box orange: previously to the active state of the camera, there was an information or warning the user has not yet addressed.

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Upper box red: previously to the active state of the camera, there was an error on the camera the user has not yet addressed.

3.1.2.2. Different statuses für other cameras#

Coming soon.

3.1.3. Status of MNT - SOMAG Mount#

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The value of mount levelling is visualized in the upper box of the MNT icon. The levelling is displayed in three classes: * green: high accuracy levelling * orange: medium accuracy levelling * gray: beyond medium accuracy levelling

The limits for high and medium accuracy classification can be defined in the tolerances section of the main menu:

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3.1.4. Status of SCN - Riegl Scanner(s)#

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No scanner / camera is available.

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The scanner / camera is available. It is either not yet connected to SensorHandler/Navigator or it has an error.

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Lower box: The scanner / camera is in initialized or in working mode.

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Lower box: The scanner / camera is in logging mode.
Upper box: The airplane started logging at the beginning of the line of flight and has not left the line.
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Lower box: The scanner / camera is in logging mode.
Upper box: The scanner / camera did not log the entire flight line.

Hint

Possible causes:

  • The logging did not start at the beginning of the line of flight.

  • The logging did not stop at the end of the line of flight.

  • The airplane left the line before it ended.

3.2. Display control#

3.2.1. Operator display#

Hint

Use Auto zoom settings for global display control.

Important

Almost all view modifications listed below affect only the operator display! The pilot display remains unchanged.

Zoom in
(disable automatic zooming of the map)
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Zoom out
(disable automatic zooming of the map)

Click anywhere on the map to manually recenter the display to that location.

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Toggle between manual and automatic zoom (applies only to operator display!)
The automatic mode ico_auto is set each time a new line is selected. Zooming in/out in multiline display and single line display will change the display to manual mode ico_man . Clicking the button again will reset the manual zoom to automatic zoom.

Display all flight lines of the project (multiline). Automatic zooming is replaced by manual zooming.

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Zoom to active flight line (single line).
Use ico_line to select centering of the map on airplane or flight line.

Toggle between head-up ico_headup and north-up orientation ico_northup of the map. Only available outside the flight line corridor! When inside the corridor, the view will automatically switch to head-up mode; outside the corridor, it will revert to north-up mode if ico_northup was selected beforehand (got to Auto zoom settings to modify this function).

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Toggle between centering of the map on airplane ico_plane (airplane is static, flight line moves) or flight line ico_line (flight line static, airplane moves).

Show/hide the ID of lines
Toggle the display of the line ID at both ends of the flight line (also applies to pilot display).
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Show/hide the ID of images
Toggle the display of the image ID on the selected flight line (also applies to pilot display).

Switch on/off for taking images. This is useful when some images on a line do not need to be taken. Click OK in the dialog box that opens to deactivate taking images and put camera/scanner in standby mode (CAM status is updated accordingly).

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Switch on/off to mark images with a different color. This can be used for images which have to be retaken (e.g. where image quality might suffer due to fog in a certain location. The marked images can be taken again later when the weather conditions are better).

Release a manual trigger (not possible for all cameras).

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Toggle to set on/off the digitizing of the airplane’s track to the layer track.shp.

Select a specific flight line from a list of lines.

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Set current flight line to the previous line (actual line ID -1).

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Set current flight line to the next line (actual line ID +1).

Switch between visualization of only the selected line including its images and of all lines with images.

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Filter to show/hide image centers of all successfully taken images.

Filter to show/hide image centers that have not yet been taken.

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Filter to show/hide all triggered images with camera warnings or errors.

3.2.2. Pilot display#

The few buttons on the pilot display can be selected directly if the pilot has a touch display. Otherwise, the operator can use the extended desktop to control the buttons on the pilot display.

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Zoom in (disable automatic zooming of the map)
Zoom out (disable automatic zooming of the map)
Return to default zoom

Set current flight line to the previous line (actual line ID -1).

Set current flight line to the next line (actual line ID +1).