Patent ID: 11922620
Assignee: nan
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 4:
5. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for surveying an area according to a surveying mission plan, comprising:
a UAV configured to execute a surveying mission plan having a payload of at least one camera;
a user device executing a mission planning application configured to generate the surveying mission plan based on a user's input specifying an area to be surveyed and a characteristic flight altitude for flying a survey mission according to the surveying mission plan,
wherein the surveying mission plan comprises an ordered set of flight path waypoints,
wherein the system is configured to recursively trigger the camera to capture static images based on either a characteristic time delay, T, or a characteristic distance between each static image, Dimage.