Recent content by Airmapper

I've played with this in the past for photogrammetry. https://opendronemap.org/webodm/ I also played with this some time ago for programming flights (hence repeatable) https://flylitchi.com/

What camera payload does this have? (3E, 3T, 3TA??)

I'm pretty much exclusively working in civil stuff for now, where I work, this would be massive overkill. They see stuff like that as something they are paying extra for. Most of the time on the rare occasions I do photo or video for real estate type work, it's going to someone who is just going...

I'd think standard household current outlets would suffice. People will have chargers for their own equipment, or should. You don't need to provide chargers, just access to power. Maybe separate the outlets on different circuits (to spread load if multiple people are charging, big drone...

King Flight Schools is pretty close. They present in front of a slideshow most often. You can pause it at any time. They have several free courses so you can see the typical format.

From what I gather about it, by this reasoning, the surveyor themself needs to fly the mission and process the results. If a lowly drone pilot cannot be entrusted to collect data without a PLS, then the surveyor needs to get a 107. If the surveyors I know are any gauge, it would be a pretty...

Tell us you did something naughty without telling us you did something naughty....🧐

Umm, yeah pretty sure it does. Not sure under what logic you think you are going to get a pass doing it that way. I mean unless you posses levitation tech what do you plan to park that car on or stand on while you fly there boss? If you are there for a commercial purpose (like, the city hired...

I use the Sky High Bulls Eye myself, I love them. Super easy to store and pack in the field. They just stay in my work truck. I've found like a 3" Magnail holds them down perfect. If on pavement, I'll find a crack to drive it in so I can pull it up. My employer had a full set of Propeller GNSS...

Yes it's common place for companies to disregard the rules or ask you to. Some of it is ignorance, some is apathy. At the end of the day if anything comes of it you are the one getting fined and sued if you get caught or something goes wrong, and some of them know you are going to get hit far...

Actually if you are a licensed operator you should know this already.....and that too is required for that mission.

You are correct. There can be some exceptions if the drone meets certain requirements (weight limit, shielded props, ect.) I've yet to see any commonly available and useful drones meet these requirements. You can sometimes pull it off if you catch an area like that closed and have some help...

Oh, yeah, that's like a civil Engineering thing. They loathe giving you details. What they are doing is trying to cover up the fact they have no clue how any of this works.

I'm sure there are I've just never had need of them to look. This looks promising if you can figure out the input process of the multi point converter. 404 Error: Page Not Found https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/NCAT/ One thing that gets tricky is elevation. I frequently see problems resulting from...

It would be a different EPSG, probably one higher or lower in number is the same state plane but in US FT. You are right to process in the EPSG you were given GCPs in. If whoever gave you that wanted it in another unit they should have gave you GCP coords in that unit. I could do all that...