Working With Geospatial Video

Geospatial video is a helpful tool not only in UAS work but in other fields of work as well. It gives more visual aid to the viewer, and helps people who weren't at the flight be able to understand exactly how the mission was flown. Geospatial video not only shows the location of where the flight was taken on a map,  but also shows the position of the drone in live time as the video plays so you can see where the drone was as it captured video. Below is the video geotagging software we used called, Video GeoTagger.

In the bottom left portion of this image you can see that we browsed our files and found both the video that we captured from the drone, and the meta date from the drone that loaded up the path used and the location on a map where the drone was at that time. In the top left of the program you can see the video that the drone captured on its flight, and on the right side of the screen you can see the path of the drone. This image here is not geotagged yet, meaning that the video and the drone path are not connected and synced yet. 

After clicking Geotag Video and clicking a start point and an end point on the path that matches up with the video, the path will sync to the video and turn red. In this image you see a blue cross hair on the map moving along the path. This is the symbol that shows were the drone is over the path, while the video is running. It matches up so you can see where the drone was, while it was capturing each second of video. 

Geospatial Video is more useful than just a regular video because it gives the viewer more information on the flight. Viewers of these videos can see where the drone was according to ground points that are more familiar to them and common to them. The down side to this kind of video is that it may not be as useful if there aren't good ground point references. If in a field or forest with no major roads or rivers around, it would be difficult still for the user to tell where the drone was flying in relation with the ground. You need good points such as roads and rivers that people are familiar with in order for this software to really be useful. Also this kind of software isn't up to survey grade standards because it doesn't have the accuracy needed to be survey grade.

 https://www.remotegeo.com/new-misb-fmv-support-for-linevision-desktop/