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I'm keenly interested in leveraging the Inspire images for Pix4D as well. The key things are to capture images with sufficient overlap (70% or better), and secondly is to get good/accurate Geotagging of the images.
Currently the Inspire 1 has a few different photo shooting modes, but I don't recall continuous to be one. It does however allow for the user to trigger a photo with the remote (which I don't think the phantoms can do), so programmatically an AP (leveraging an SDK for the Inspire, which isn't available yet) should be able to trigger photos at any desired time (which would need to be determined based on travel speed, height & desired ground resolution).
While 16 Waypoints with a Phantom may seem a little low, remember you are working with a rotary wing, not a fixed wing, Project areas will need to be smaller and aircraft airspeed will likely be slower. I hope to use Oblique images from the Inspire to augment larger datasets captured at NADIR from a fixed wing UAV, thus producing more robust 3d point clouds. So hopefully the Point of Interest (POI) function will allow for focused data collection around those facilities that have larger vertical elements that aren't fully represented by simply NADIR images. It also sounds like ground station functionality is in the works, but just not released yet.
In an earlier online chat (during one of Pix4D's webinars) I asked if the software would be able to work with Inspire camera images, and was lead to believe it would. As the production units are just now starting to ship, I'm sure the staff at Pix4D would be happy to help add the camera metrics to their library of supported cameras.
I know as soon as my Inspire arrives next week, I will be doing some tests to see how the images from the Inspire can be used with Pix4d. Based on the fact that Pix4D was also a presenter at the Inspire announcement back in November, I'm sure they have staff WAY smarter than I am looking into it as well. With a little faith, patience and perseverance, I'm sure the Inspire will be a good addition to the toolbox.
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