How to execute a drone survey?
Learn how exactly to conduct a drone survey with WingtraOne in this video. You will notice how exactly to plan a flight, how exactly to collect aerial images and how to safely interact with the drone at any time. Watch how orthomosaic maps, point clouds and digital elevation models are produced from the collected images.
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1. Check before you leave the office
Make your survey project a success with our expert tips. First, check the local regulations and make sure that you are permitted to fly your drone at the planned location. Also, ensure that the weather would work, meaning no rain, fog, snowfall or strong winds. Be sure the battery of your drone and connected devices such as for example tablets are fully charged and that the memory of one's drone camera has sufficient empty space to capture the entire project.
2. Plan your flight
It is simple to create your survey flight plan with the WingtraPilot smart drone flight planning app on the tablet. For this, just tap and drag the points round the area you would like to survey, or import a KML file. Ensure you account for tall objects within the flight plan, as well as altitude differences. If needed, you can adjust flight settings such as for example altitude, ground sampling distance (GSD), flight direction and images overlap.
3. Setup your flight in the field
Unpack and assemble the drone in a few simple steps and ensure that it is prepared to take-off in safe conditions. Following interactive check-list, you'll one-by-one check every parameter, like cleaning the length sensor and making sure the camera lid is removed.
4. Fly and collect images
After pushing the take-off button, the drone autonomously will take off, captures images and lands back where it started. In this step, the operator essentially makes certain that nobody approaches the drone during take-off or landing and that the current weather conditions stay optimal for the survey mission.
5. Drone Surveyors Bristol
After one or several flights, import the images into WingtraHub software to geotag them s. Geo-tagging assigns geographical position (X, Y, Z) information to the images either in a separate CSV file or in the images? meta-data.
