Recent content by AMann

Would love to see photos of your work experiences- welcome!

Sorry, but getting unsolicited SPAM email is the worse- I wouldn’t do it.

I simply Google’d your question: AI Overview: “The app you're looking for is DJI GS Pro (Ground Station Pro), which was designed for iPad and includes features like maps with street names for professional flight planning. Older or other DJI apps like the original DJI GO app and DJI GO 4 also...

Great! Thanks for clarifying and good luck with the sale!

Just a warning- this seller is is using a different membership name with the same ad and is not responding to anyone on the Mavicpilots forum either…. It may be a legit sale and/or is already gone, but just be careful with this sale. We had someone who wanted prospective buyers to only...

That 30T is a great workhorse and it looks like a good deal, I would go for that. But if you are stretched, there is currently a M3T for sale (it’s not mine and I do not know the seller) in the Mavic Pilots Forum...

Thanks for the input. You are right, a multispectral agricultural camera on any drone would have worked, but I’m just a poor student with a Mavic Pro 2. Also, as I needed to match the 1 meter ground resolution of the pre-fire NAIP imagery, and even the M2P’s image resolution is way too fine...

Ardupilot is open source and there are a lot of commercially available flight controllers that are compatible with it. Hope you have a recovery chute on the thing- fly safe!

Hi, and thanks for the good questions! I chose using my Mavic 2 Pro because that’s what I have…. In terms of image resolution, one can use just about any type of drone for this project since the ground resolution had to be limited to 1 meter in order to properly compare the 2025 results to those...

I’ve done it for quite accurate 3D modeling for a historic recordation project, which isn’t really that different from mapping. It was for a CalTrans job at a historic bridge and the shadows hid the internal structure underneath the bridge deck. HDR images allowed us to expose all of it...

If I don’t have corner coordinates and it is just an illustration, I use MS Paint - seriously! If I do have coordinates, I use either QGIS or ArcGIS. And yeah, for the title of the drawing and in the file name for it, I always use the word “approximate”.

You could use HDR (high Dynamic Range) processing. It’ll take longer, but do at least two RAW mode (.dng, not .jpg) images (3 would be best) while parked at a dead stop above each photo point. Make one shot with a shorter exposure set for the sunlit areas and a longer exposure one for the shaded...

The USGS Earth Explorer site has free 1-meter resolution geotiffs that are flown every other year. OP should look into those if all his friend needs is a map of the entire 4sq miles. They are quite good and can be paired with LIDAR data from the same site to make 3D maps.

I just finished this project for my GIS class and wanted to share the results (see attached report). If anyone is interested in doing budget vegetation mapping for habitat analysis, recovery, wetlands delineation, etc., this may be a good low-cost approach for doing it. Note: The Python tool I...

I’m going to get yelled at here for suggesting this on just the low technical quality of the image, but I spliced the entire set of my Dad’s 8mm and his Super 8mm films in chronological order on 2 separate reels, and set up the films to project in a darkened room on a real old style glass bead...