Recent content by Clinton Carman

Thank you everyone for your responses. This is along the lines of something I'm looking for. I am not a surveyor. I will not attempt to sell survey-grade work. I also don't want to pay $16,000 - $18,000 for something I use sparingly, and only to increase my own confidence in my products. Again...

Hello everyone, I've routinely used AirMap for my LAANC approvals but will be teaching a class coming up and wanted to be able to give the students different options. I've heard the Kittyhawk app can do it, but I've never used it. If anyone has/does use it, could you please comment on how...

I have the exact same drone and I've mapped about 6,000 acres so far this year and am processing another hundred acres as I type this. I am a Fire Investigator and was originally using my drone to document fire scenes. Then I got called to a Wildfire and asked to document several thousand acres...

Hello Everyone, Our company has been doing a lot of drone mapping as of late. We've been working primarily on a lot of back country that is quite remote, very steep and was often involved in a wildfire. Most of what our clients have wanted is visual information only. The ability to see what was...

That's right! I had forgotten about that. IF I can get in on that, and it works, that may be the way to go. A lot easier to combine 4 maps into 1 versus 32 maps into 1!

Even at the highest paid levels, DroneDeploy only allows for 5,000 images per map really. Now I don't know about some customized job. And on MME I haven't seen a limit listed, but since they're require you to pay per map, that MIGHT get really expensive. I will look into it though.

R Martin, I said in my original post I had successfully completed the merging of two maps into one larger map, but like you said, it took me quite a while. I can't imagine trying to merge 32 maps into 16, down into 8, into 4, then 2, then 1. That would literally take months IF I had the computer...

Thanks Dronie, it took quite a while and was a bit more than we were initially expecting. Overall we did about 33 flights, each flight having about 600-1800 photos. The differences really depends on what the terrain allowed for with accessibility and line of sight issues. We were actually met...

R Martin, thank you for the reply. The customer does want a single map of the whole property. They want to be able to look at the whole property and get a scale of the damage, then if they need to look in an area/sector with more detail, they can load the individual map corresponding to that...

Recently I completed a very large mapping project of a mine up in the mountains that was affected by a large wildfire. In total there was over 2,000 ft of elevation difference, spread across 3,500 acres. I broke the project into approximately 33 smaller flights using a Phantom 4 Pro v2.0, and...

They have not released the SDK yet for the Phantom 4 Pro v2.0; therefore none of the 3rd party apps (even DJI GS Pro) will work with it until it is released.

From DJI's technical support regarding DJI GS Pro, they do not yet support the Phantom 4 Pro v2.0. So my guess is that the other software companies don't yet either.

I have a brand new Phantom 4 Pro v2.0 using a 9.7" iPad Pro (wifi only). I have two separate cables I've connected my iPad to the controller with, neither has resolved the issue. I have also updated the P4P to the most recent firmware. To begin with, when using the DJI Go4 app (version 4.2.16)...

I see your location is listed as Coulterville, but cool that you work in Sacramento! I live in Lincoln and am starting to use drones to do 3D mapping of fire scenes. What drone are you using that will tag the GPS location like this? Thank you in advance for your help!

Thank you both for your suggestions! I actually found a great deal on a used P4P so I jumped on it. To be clear, programs like Photoscan or Bentley ContextCapture are software that combine images into a point cloud, but they do NOT assist you in taking those images. If I were to choose that...