PSDK 102S V2 - 5 Lens Oblique Camera: Share Data Manager

PSDK 102S V2 - 5 Lens Oblique Camera: Share Data Manager

1. Introduction

Share Data Manager is a data processing auxiliary software designed for oblique photography camera, designed to improve the efficiency of oblique photography in the industry, simplify the data pretreatment operation. The main functions include flight management, copy/clean photo data, write geographic location information to photos, generate engineering files, upgrade camera firmware, etc. The use of Share Data Manager can help users more convenient management of camera information, camera firmware maintenance.

2. Operation Environment

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3. Workflow

The main operation of Share Data Manager is to copy photo data from camera and write relevant information and geographic information. The operation process of copying photos is as follows:


4. Software Installation

1) Once the Share UAV Data Manager has been downloaded, open the file and follow the prompts to complete the installation. All installation settings will be set to the default.



Once the installation is complete, Share Data Manager creates two shortcuts on the desktop: "Share Data Manager" and "Share Toolbox".



2) Please log in to the website below to view the latest online tutorial of Share Data Manager：


5. Software Interface

Open Share Data Manager, select the camera model as PSDK 102S V2, and select the UAV that was used to conduct the flight with. Connect the camera and computer with USB Type-C data cable. The camera does not need to be powered on during data transfer. The first time the camera is connected to the computer It will automatically install drivers to allow data transfer and communication, please wait patiently.

After the camera software is connected, the device details screen is automatically displayed. The home screen consists of three parts: The function list is displayed on the left. The upper part of the right side shows the connection state and capacity of the memory of each lens; The lower right side shows the flight sorties, and when the mouse is placed over the sorties it shows the number of POS and photos contained in the sorties.

There is also a "Disconnect" button in the lower left corner. Click this button to Disconnect the camera from your computer after data transfer has been completed, and then unplug the CAMERA USB. Removing the CAMERA USB without using the disconnect button may cause camera failure.



As shown in the image above, flights are sorted by shot time and all are displayed on the Share Data Manager. We can see the name of the flight (corresponding to the POS file on the GPS disk) and the time of shot

There is a “detail” button for each flight. Click to go to the individual flight details screen.


In the flight details, you can see the total number of photos and POS from all angles of the flight, as well as the details of the included photo location data. Click on a row of photo data to see a thumbnail of the photo and detailed data on the right

In the camera, the photos and POS data are stored separately. Through the Share Data Manager, the photos can be associated with the corresponding POS, and the POS can be written into the photos when copying data.

6. Functions

6.1. Copy Flights

Copying flight is the copying of POS data and photo data from one or more flights from the camera to the computer and preprocessing for modeling. The process for copying flights is as follows:

（1）Select flights to be copied, for example, 100_0001, 100_0002, 100_0003;

（2）Click the copy button to enter the copy setting interface





（3）Copy Settings complete, click Start Copy to enter the copy process interface. The current copy progress and remaining time are displayed on the page.



（4）Under normal circumstances, the copy is completed when the copy progress reaches 100%. At this point, all the images have been copied to the save folder and the stand project files have been generated.


（5）Open folder and view the copied imagery data. There are several flight folders and an Excel file that can be imported into ContextCapture as a block file.



      （6）Under each flight folder there are 5 folders and a text file, the text file is the original POS file, the five folders are named with the first letter of "front, back, left, right and down", storing photos from five perspectives. 


Each parameter in the copy setting screen must be set correctly to obtain the photos that meet the requirements. The specific meanings of setting parameters are shown in the following table:


6.2 Clean Flights

Clearing flights is the function of clearing old, captured imagery from the camera. The cleaning process is as follows:

（1） Select “Clean Flight”;



（2） Click the Clean Flights button, the software will pop up a tip window, asking if you want to clean the selected flights to avoid the error deletion.



（3） Click OK and the software will automatically delete the selected flights and restore the camera parameters.




      （4）When the cleaning progress reaches 100%, the formatting is complete.

【Attention】

(1) The old photo data in the camera should be removed by Share Data Manager. Manual deletion of the photo data is not recommended. Manually deleting data will cause the camera to fail to take pictures.

(2) Once the data in the camera is removed, it cannot be restored. Therefore, before removing data, it is important to check whether the photos contained in the details of the flight are the ones to be deleted to avoid deleting flights by mistake.

(3) It is recommended that after exporting the photo data, the original photo should be kept in the camera before the completion of the aerial triangulation, and then delete the photos in the camera after the aero triangulation is successful.


6.3 Firmware Upgrade

Share Data Manager can upgrade the camera firmware online. Click the firmware upgrade button on the left of the software interface to enter the firmware upgrade function interface. This feature can only be used if you are connected to the Internet, so we recommend that you stay connected to the Internet when using the Share Data Manager, so that you do not miss the latest firmware updates.


The current firmware version and the latest firmware version of the camera are displayed on the upgrade screen. If there is a new firmware version, you can click "Download" button to upgrade.
The downloaded firmware upgrade package is stored in the camera, and the upgrade will be completed automatically the next time the camera is powered on.

6.4 Camera Information

Before the camera disconnection, it will save the lens distortion correction and default offset compensation parameter settings to the GPS drive on the camera.

This information is important for the pre-processing of photo data, which can be viewed in the Share Data Manager and can be alerted in case of unexpected data loss.

Don't worry if you accidentally delete the camera info, we have saved an online backup for you, which can be downloaded to the camera using the Share Data Manager. 





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