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 to collect aerial images and how exactly to safely connect to the drone at any time. Watch how orthomosaic maps, point clouds and digital elevation models are created 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  website  and make certain 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 one's 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 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 round the area you intend to survey, or import a KML file. Ensure 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. Create your flight in the field

Unpack and assemble the drone in several simple steps and make sure that it is prepared to take-off in safe conditions. Following the interactive check-list, you'll 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 task, the operator essentially makes certain 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.