IGIplan is IGI's new planning software. Some highlights are:

• intuitive interactive modification of mission planning objects (e.g. flight lines, blocks, automatic area coverage, automatic track coverage, ...)
• mutiple sensor support for digital & analog cameras, LiDAR, Linescanner
• advanced DTM support (automatic leveling, automatic exposure frequency)
• import and export of Google Earth kml-files.

On this page, some feature examples are illustrated with video tutorials.

Create / Modify Mission Planning Objects interactively

With just a few mouse clicks it is possible to create flight lines, blocks, automatically covered polygonal areas and automatically covered polygonal tracks. Length, orientation, extent of area, ... can be interactively modified via mouse dragging.

Block creation:

Modified block:

Please have a look at the Video

Multiple Sensor Support

IGIplan supports analog cameras, digital cameras, LiDAR, and line scanner by design. Common sensor systems are natively supported by IGIplan. However, the user can set specific sensor parameters with the integrated sensor editor. Depending on the sensor type, different mission planning parameters can be used to determine the altitude above ground level (AGL).

IGIplan Sensor Type Support		Automatic Altitude Determination & Coverage Simulation when changing:
Analog Cameras	e.g. RC10/20/30, RMK-A/-TOP, LMK,...	picture scale, forward size, sideward size
Digital Cameras	e.g. DigiCAM/dual/quattro/..., DMC, Ultra-Cam-D/X/Xp, DiMAC	Ground Sample Distance (GSD) plus analog camera features
LiDAR Scanner	e.g. LiteMapper,...	dots/sqm and speed, swath
Line Scanner	e.g. JAS, 3-DAS-1,...	GSD, swath

Extended DTM Support

IGIplan adds extended digital terrain model (DTM) support. There are interactive mission planning objects for automatic creation of leveled flight plans depending on an acceptable interval of altitude above ground level. Other mission planning objects dynamically change the distance between exposures (and the distance between flight lines for a block), keeping the flight altitude constant during the mission.

Example with missing overlap:

Automatically introducing levels to create overlap:

Please have a look at the Video

Support for Google Earth KML-Files

IGIplan can import and export many raster- and vector-map formats, including the keyhole markup language (KML) format used by Google Earth. Within Google Earth, you can define polygonal areas or tracks and transfer these to IGIplan via the KML format. Using IGIplan, create coverages of these target areas automatically. Export the mission planning to a KML file, which in turn can be shown in Google Earth along with your defined polygons.

Please have a look at the Video

Features:

• GoogleEarth (*.kml) format support
• More than 600 local coordinate systems
• Support for all common aerial cameras and sensors
• Raster & vector map support for common file formats
• Support for many DTM raster formats
• Drag and modify flight lines interactively
• Automatic altitude determination through sensor specific
  mission planning parameters (GSD, picture scale)
• Planning and creation of flight lines, blocks or tracks with
  automatic levels using DTM
• Full support for IGI`s CCNS4
• 3D view of the flight plan
• Multiple Undo / Redo
• Video tutorials

System requirements:
Intel Pentium® , Core™ or equivalent processor
Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or 3; Windows Vista® with Service Pack 1
512MB of RAM
150 MB of available hard disk space