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6X Series Sensors Web Page UI Home
The home page of the 6X webpage displays the sensor status, session control, trigger control, and calibration control menus. This is the default landing page when the webpage is accessed.
The status field displays the telemetry information received from external sources like the aircraft autopilot or light sensor/GPS.
The GPS status displays the GPS information currently available to the 6X.
Latitude
latitude location in decimal degrees.
Longitude
Longitude location in decimal degrees.
Alt
GPS Time
Fix Type
The type of GPS fix that has been acquired. Unknown - Unknown fix type.
None - No fix achieved.
2D - 2 dimensional position.
Sats
The number of satellites that are detected by the GPS source.
Horz Acc
The horizontal accuracy of the GPS fix in meters.
Vert Acc
The vertical accuracy of the GPS fix in meters.
DOP
The attitude status displays the current attitude of the 6X in the earth reference frame.
The attitude information source is dependent on the selected configuration. See the configuration page for detailed information.
Roll
The roll angle of the sensor in degrees.
Pitch
The pitch angle of the sensor in degrees.
Yaw
The yaw angle of the sensor in degrees.
Session Control displays if the 6X is ready to take imagery or not. If a session is started, the 6X is ready. If a session is not started automatically the 6X may not be ready. However, a session can be started manually if desired.
The 6X has detected that it is ready to begin collecting imagery. The session start criteria is based on the configuration of the 6X.
The 6X did not automatically start a session.
To start a session manually:
Name the session in the text input box, or leave the default web_session name.
Press the Start Session button.
Verify the status lights on the 6X turn solid green.
Starting a session manually can be useful for ground testing.
Starting a session manually before a flight is not recommended as the 6X may not have the telemetry information necessary for successful data capture.
The 6X can be manually triggered using the Capture Image button in the Trigger Control field. This is useful for ground testing, or when manual image capture is applicable.
Press the Capture Image button (a session must be started) and the 6X will take an image (1 image per imager). The status LEDs on the 6X will briefly flash from green to white.
The Calibration Control field is used for capturing calibration images with a reflectance panel. The manual Capture Calibration button only needs to be used when:
No Light Sensor/GPS is being used.
The Light Sensor/GPS does not have the push button feature.
Learn how to properly capture calibration images here:
Current altitude in meters ()
The as received from the satellites.
3D - 3 dimensional position. DGPS - aided 3D position. RTK Float - with float ambiguities.
RTK Fixed - with fixed ambiguities.
The of the GPS accuracy.
6X Series Sensors How to Change Configuration Settings
Depending on your current or desired configuration the All Platform Configurations check box may need to be selected to display the option in the drop down menu.
6X Series Sensors How to Change Image Adjustment Settings
The settings on this page can be applied while a session is currently running and no reboot of the camera is needed.
After modifying one or more values, click the ‘Apply’ button in the lower right corner of the page. The settings will be updated for the next trigger.
If a session is currently running, the ‘Capture Image’ button will be enabled on this page to allow more rapid testing of settings changes. Sessions can be started from the `Home` page if one isn’t currently running.
Large changes to autoexposure will apply right away, but the camera may take 10+ seconds to stabilize on the new exposure settings. Other settings changes are reflected in the images much quicker.
6X Series Sensors Image Adjustment Settings
6X image settings are set by default for the best settings in most use cases. There is also the ability to alter some of the color and exposure settings for custom applications.
Changing these values is not necessary for most applications and may prevent standard analytics from being run.
In most normal usage, the exposure should not need to be adjusted, however if your images are consistently too bright or too dark, the autoexposure settings can be modified. These settings will change how bright / dark the image is, as well as the shutter speeds and gains used to capture the image.
0 - 255
60 (rgb), 75 (mono)
Sets the average pixel value across the entire frame that the autoexposure attempts to achieve. It is the highest 8 bits of any imager, and is calculated before any ISP corrections are performed. This means that the final image will likely have an average brightness much higher than this target due to vignetting and gamma correction being applied in later steps. Due to this, in general the target value should be kept lower than 100.
200 – {Shutter Max}
400
This value is the shortest shutter speed in us (microseconds) that will be used before the camera drops to a lower ISO. If the camera is already running at the lowest ISO, then the shutter speed will go faster until it hits the limit of the sensor.
{Shutter Min} – 25000
2000
This value is the longest shutter speed in us (microseconds) the camera will use before increasing the ISO to attempt to stay below this value. For most flights, you should not see a longer shutter speed unless the field has insufficient lighting, forcing the shutter to go longer (see Shutter Unlock). It is recommended to keep this value lower than 3ms (3000us) to avoid motion blur caused by the groundspeed of the UAV.
100 – 12800 (rgb)
100 – 25118 (mono)
1600 (rgb)
1594 (mono)
If the ISO gets set to this value or greater by the autoexposure, then the shutter max value is ignored, allowing the shutter speed to go slower. This is to prevent the camera from using very high gains, which can have worse effects on image quality than the motion blur from a slow shutter speed . It is also useful for taking images indoors, where lighting is insufficient to capture images otherwise.
These settings allow adjustment to the overall brightness, contrast, and saturation of the image without modifying the exposure. They should be used for fine color adjustment if the default settings are not giving the quality of image needed for your application.
0.0 – 2.0
1.0
Adjusts the difference between the light and dark values. This effectively multiplies every value by X. So setting this to 1.1 will take 1.1x each pixel value. For example, if you have a value of 20 and 200 (180 apart) normally, setting contrast to 1.1 will change the values to 22 and 220 (198 apart) effectively increasing the contrast between bright and dark.
0.0 – 2.0
1.0
Adjusts the vibrancy of the color in the image. This will affect the color and changing this by too much can result in imagery with less ‘true’ color. This increases the ‘contrast’ of each color. For example, if something is bright green, increasing saturation adjusts it to be even more green than a darker green in the same image.
There are several onboard processing steps that the sensor performs to provide the best data product possible. While we recommend leaving these at their default settings, each of the processing stages can be disabled to get completely unmodified imagery from the sensor.
Enabled
This enables use of the internal color correction matrix on the sensor. The purpose is to compensate for the exact response of the sensor and produce an image with correct color and white balance. Disabling this is not recommended, as the resulting images will appear ‘greenish’ due to the sensitivity profile of the imager.
Enabled
Enables the onboard alignment of the monochrome imagers. This allows images flown at appropriate altitude to come off the sensor already aligned and ready for processing. This process does crop the image size by a small amount as well as translate and rotate the associated images resulting in some interpolation. If this is a concern, it can be disabled, but alignment will have to be done in other software.
6X Series Sensors How To Access The Webpage UI
Power the sensor using the AC power adapter or install into the aircraft and turn the aircraft on.
Then wait for the LEDS on the sensor to do the following:
AC Power Adapter
Flashing Red
Drone Power
Solid Green (Requires GPS Fix) Solid Red (After 2 minutes w/o GPS)
This verifies that the sensor is fully booted.
Connect the sensor to the computer using a USB cable.
Use the USB-C port on the side of the sensor not the USB-C port on the top of the gimbal.
Use the USB-C Cable provided with the 6X. This cable gives the best and most reliable performance.
Open your wifi/network panel from the task bar. Verify that you see "unidentified network - No internet". This is the 65R appearing as a network device.
Open a web browser (chrome, safari, firefox, etc).
No internet connection is required.
In the address bar enter 192.168.42.1 and press enter/go.
The webpage will appear.
If the webpage can't be connected to after a few minutes try the following: - Verify the sensor has had around a minute to boot. - Turn off/disconnect any Wi-Fi or Ethernet connections that have internet access. - Verify the USB cable being used is the provided cable or one of the listed compatible cables.
If the 6X is being powered with the AC power adapter, the No Gimbal Communication application will appear. This is expected as the gimbal itself is now powered.
6X Series Sensors Configuration
The configuration page is used to change:
How the 6X interacts with the aircraft it is connected to.
The triggering method
In most cases the 6X is preconfigured based on what aircraft/system the camera is ordered for and the configuration doesn't need to be changed.
To learn how to change the configuration of the 6X or change the overlap for auto-height overlap mode, see the pages linked below.
The platform and metadata configuration is used to tell the 6X what aircraft it will be used with and where data sources (altitude, GPS, heading, etc) will come from.
The Config File field will display the currently config file. It also contains the change button used for changing the config file.
Depending on the current config file there will be limited config files displayed in the change menu. To display all configuration file options select the "All platform configurations" and/or the "Advanced configurations" radio buttons as shown in the advanced tab below.
The Config Type is tied to the config file and gives more specific instruction about the metadata sources. The config names and data source information are listed below.
DJI Skyport
DJI Autopilot
DJI Autopilot
DJI Autopilot
M300 M350 M200 M210
Sentera GPS
Sentera External GPS
65R Sensor Internal IMU
65R Sensor
M300 M350 M200 M210
Astro IF800 IF1200 Custom
Freefly Astro Gimbal
Astro Autopilot
Astro Autopilot
Astro Autopilot
Astro
IF800
IF800 Autopilot
IF800 Autopilot
IF800 Autopilot
IF800
IF1200A
IF200 Autopilot
IF200 Autopilot
IF200 Autopilot
IF1200
MAVLink-V2
MAVlink Autopilot
MAVlink Autopilot
MAVlink Autopilot
Custom MAVlink Autopilot Systems
DJI M300 DGR
Sentera DGR Sensor Package
Sentera DGR Sensor Package
Sentera DGR Sensor Package
M300 M350
DJI M600 DGR
Sentera DGR Sensor Package
Sentera DGR Sensor Package
Sentera DGR Sensor Package
M600
DJI M600 OSDK
DJI A3 Autopilot
DJI A3 Autopilot
DJI A3 Autopilot
M600
MAVlink
MAVlink V1
MAVlink V1
MAVlink V1
Most MAVlink enabled platforms with configurable serial port.
Sentera GPS
Sentera GPS
6X Sensor Internal IMU
6X Sensor
Custom
Configurations with 6X Sensor Internal IMU as an Attitude source does not contain yaw/heading information and must be flown east facing.
The trigger field is used to set the trigger type and related settings.
The Command trigger type is used when the trigger commands come directly from the aircraft autopilot.
No settings are provided for this mode. The sensor will only trigger if it receives a trigger command from MAVLink, the web page, Payload SDK, or the custom Sentera Protocol.
The External trigger type is used when an external source is used to trigger the 6X.
There are 4 options for the external trigger commands. See the details in the table below.
Rising Edge
The trigger input must be stable for 50 milliseconds to register as a commanded trigger. This is also known as the mechanical switch debounce period.
Falling Edge
The trigger input must be stable for 50 milliseconds to register as a commanded trigger. This is also known as the mechanical switch debounce period.
Low PWM
The lower value of the PWM TRIGGER input in milliseconds.
High PWM
The higher value of the PWM TRIGGER input in milliseconds.
The trigger input is the TRIGGER signal on connector J2.
For all modes, the TRIGGER input must be actively driven using 3.3V logic levels.
The Interval trigger type is used to capture images at a specified time interval rather than distance travelled. The minimum capture interval is 0.200 seconds (5Hz).
The sensor will start triggering the moment a session starts, so this may result in images taken on the ground as well as in the air.
The Overlap trigger type is used when the the 6X is being powered by an aircraft, not receiving triggers from the aircraft or an external device, and classical overlap settings are used. This is useful for many applications as it removes the need for in depth integration with the aircraft. The 6X in combination with the Light Sensor/GPS will operate without direct communication with the aircraft.
Once 6X detects it is more than the minimum altitude above the takeoff point, it begins to capture images and continues to do so to achieve the correct image overlap. Triggering stops when it detects the platform has departed from the minimum altitude.
The 6X works with any ground station or flight controller in this mode, as it makes calculations about altitude using the GPS receiver’s measured altitude at takeoff.
This is the standard setting for systems without MAVLink or DJI Skyport.
There are 2 overlap modes:
The 6X detects the flight altitude (AGL) based on the detected GPS altitude between where the session starts (on the ground) and where the aircraft flies at (survey altitude).
The 6X assumes the survey altitude of the aircraft matches the fixed height input in the altitude box.
Overlap
Changes the frequency of the trigger based on the overlap of the image. Fifty percent overlap means that when the sensor has moved such that 50% of the image is new, an image will be triggered. Use the slider to adjust the overlap percentage in the text box. There are markers present in the slider at settings for typical use cases.
Altitude Type
Selects whether a fixed altitude is used for calculating overlap, or automatic altitude determined from GPS.
Atlitide
Selects whether a fixed altitude is used for calculating overlap, or automatic altitude determined from GPS.
Min AGL
To prevent triggers from occurring while walking around on the ground, a minimum altitude can be set. Any triggers that occur due to the sensor moving around will be blocked if the sensor estimates that its altitude is less than this number.
Min Distance
If the sensor is flying very low to the ground, the overlap setting may result in very rapid triggers. To prevent a flood of images, a minimum trigger distance can be set. This distance is the minimum distance the sensor must travel before the next trigger can be sent.
6X Series Sensors Configuration & Settings
RGB
Monochrome
RGB
Monochrome
