Question about video presentation.

[PhilipAmadasun]

On the video presentation you guys made for youtube, you imported the picture of the grass field into rviz. How were you able to do that? I want to import the png file of the map I want to cover so I can do the same thing.

[rikba]

Cool! What exactly do you mean by "glass filed into rviz"?
Can you give me a time stamp of the video?

[PhilipAmadasun]

@rikba I meant "grass field" not "glass filed" sorry

[rikba]

We used rviz_satellite to load the actual map TIFF into RVIZ to plan the path. See https://github.com/ethz-asl/polygon_coverage_planning/blob/master/polygon_coverage_ros/launch/coverage_planner_satellite.launch for a small example. Note sure if this still runs.

[rikba]

Does this answer your question?

[PhilipAmadasun]

@rikba I'll check to see if it runs, I still need more explanation with the lateral FOV problem, I continued the conversation on that thread just now.

[PhilipAmadasun]

@rikba is lateral footprint the same as sensor footprint? if so what is the unit, is it m^2?