How to do a drone survey?

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How to do a drone survey?

Learn how to conduct a drone survey with WingtraOne in this video. You will notice how to plan a flight, how to collect aerial images and how to safely connect to 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 the office

Make your survey project successful 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, make certain 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

You can easily create your survey flight plan with the WingtraPilot smart drone flight planning app on the tablet. For this, just tap and drag the points around the area you wish to survey, or import a KML file. Make sure you account for tall objects within the flight plan, together with altitude differences. If needed, you can adjust flight settings such as for example altitude, ground sampling distance (GSD), flight direction and images overlap.

3. Set up 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 the 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  Learn more , 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. Geotag your images



After one or several flights, import the images into WingtraHub software to geotag them s.  https://click4r.com/posts/g/10125976/ -tagging assigns geographical position (X, Y, Z) information to the images either in another CSV file or in the images? meta-data.