How to do a drone survey?
Learn how to conduct a drone survey with WingtraOne in this video. You will see how to plan a flight, how exactly to collect aerial images and how to safely interact with the drone anytime. 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 any office
Make your survey project a success with this expert tips. First, check the neighborhood regulations and make certain that you are permitted to fly your drone at the planned location. Also, ensure that the weather is suitable, meaning no rain, fog, snowfall or strong winds. Be sure the battery of one's drone and connected devices such as tablets are fully charged and that the memory card of one's drone camera has sufficient empty space to fully 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. Because of You can find out more , just tap and drag the points around the area you intend to survey, or import a KML file. Make sure you take into account tall objects within the flight plan, and also altitude differences. If needed, it is possible to adjust flight settings such as 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 make sure that it is ready to take-off in safe conditions. Following a interactive check-list, you will one-by-one check every parameter, like cleaning the length sensor and making certain 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 sure that nobody approaches the drone during take-off or landing and that the weather conditions stay optimal for the survey mission.
5. Geotag your images
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.