Since the early 1980's IGI of Kreuztal, Germany has been the leader in flight management systems for aerial data collection. Today the CCNS4 is the most versatile and capable flight management system available, with the great advantage of suitability for all contemporary aerial camera systems, digital cameras as well as film cameras, and other sensor systems.

The CCNS4 Standard System takes its position information from the directional gyro of the aircraft and an internal or external GPS receiver, firing the sensor at the exact preplanned positions. The CCNS4 has assisted with over three million aerial photos and many sensor missions, and users attest to the increase in production and the decrease in costs it provides. Flight planning is done on an office PC; the flight plan, on a PCMCIA card, is inserted into the CCNS4 airborne computer which takes over the job - producing a perfect mission every time.

AEROcontrol is based on an inertial measurement unit and 12-channel DGPS receivers. The system offers a .3 meter - .5 meter real-time accuracy, .1 - .2 meter post aeriotriangulation accuracy, depending on the distance from the ground based monitor station. All raw data is stored on PC-cards for post-flight processing and can be introduced as an additional observation into aerial triangulation programs.