Offline custom terrain aware profile

I am planning a mission with a LiDAR payload in steep mountainous terrain. Therefore, I would like to use a custom terrain source for terrain following. I have uploaded a DEM to my Maps Made Easy account, and all looks good, I can see the profile under the terrain aware sources when planning missions with my Ipad connected to the internet. However, when I ran a test in the carpark and tried to upload a local mission to my P4P it became obvious that the custom terrain profile was not downloaded for use offline when saving the mission plan.
Is there a way to use a custom terrain profile source offline?

Hamish Sutton 21 juin 2023 00:33

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I think I have discovered what I was doing wrong and how I can use the custom terrain feature offline.

When making a mission while the Ipad is online it is important to calculate the terrain adjusted waypoints using the custom terrain profile BEFORE saving the mission for later use offline. I had the custom terrain profile correctly selected under the terrain aware tab but I did not run the mission through the custom terrain profile prior to saving the mission. Instead I was attempting to get MPP to calculate the custom terrain profile at the time of uploading the mission to the drone just prior to the flight.

Hamish Sutton 21 juin 2023 02:07 0 votes

Yes, this is correct. When you save a mission it will back up the basemap information that is used for that map. No all users have access to the Terrain Awareness feature so it only saves the information that was used in the creation of the layout.

Once this data is saved on the device it can be used to create other Mission Plans while in the field without needing an internet connection.

Zane 21 juin 2023 17:02 0 votes