>How come I am receiving "Zero" for heading from the GPS on Eyesis 4Pi? 
> How can I resolve this? 
>Thanks! 
> 
GPS receiver does not provide heading data. When you use a hand-held GPS 
receiver, it calculates your heading when you move, comparing positional data 
along your way, so that is calcualted, derivative data. Real time systems used 
for navigation can only use half of the recorded data - samples that happened 
in the past. When you process recorded images, you do not have such limitation, 
so post-processing can achieve better results that on-the-fly calculated 
heading. This is why we do not do it in the camera but rather record positional 
data in the log (and in the Exif of each frame).

The GPS heading fileds in the Exif in the camera are used for different purpose 
-  and not for the Eyesis camera (Eyesis camera modules share all the code with 
the general purpose model 353 units). These Exif fields are were used by the 
camera to provide raw data from the magnetometer (compass) if it exists in the 
system. But even in that case it can not be used as real "heading" of the 
camera (it has to be post-processed and is in combination with inertial data).

Andrey


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