DJI New Drone - DJI Matrice 4 Series

[rainy]

DJI's new commercial drone DJI Matrice 4 series is a multi-sensor drone. Like the Autel EVO MAX series, it is a leader in multi-industry applications. Will they be competitors?

 

[adm_geomatics]

DJI's new commercial drone DJI Matrice 4 series is a multi-sensor drone. Like the Autel EVO MAX series, it is a leader in multi-industry applications. Will they be competitors?

Taking the Mavic 3E as a starting point they have stepped up the prominence to make Matrice the standard enterprise drone. The Mavics are set to return to the consumer market. The upgrade looks minimal at a glance, but the larger form factor, faster flight and shutter and new flight modes will prove more valuable in the field than one might think. Basically, there is no current competitor.

 

[jaja6009]

Taking the Mavic 3E as a starting point they have stepped up the prominence to make Matrice the standard enterprise drone. The Mavics are set to return to the consumer market. The upgrade looks minimal at a glance, but the larger form factor, faster flight and shutter and new flight modes will prove more valuable in the field than one might think. Basically, there is no current competitor.

For those with a Mavic 3 Enterprise it might not be worth it to upgrade, but as you said if you are able to, I would so so.

On really large projects, the increased image acqusition will add up and time is usually money.

So other reasons this new drone rocks.

• Only this drone and the Matrice 3D or Matrice 30 Dock version allow for Virtual Cockpit in Flight Hub 2 allowing you to fly a drone from a browser anywhere in the world (with internet of course). Other models may follow suit though.
• AI. It can recognize people, vehicles and boats on screen with a max of 128. Better in images and HiRes Grid image it can count to 1000. Best yet you can signup for DJI AI Developer to train the AI for your own use case.
• Cruise Control
• Active Track, POI Orbit (Mavic 3 Series Has POI)
• Time Sync for highly accurate, precise mapping and modeling
• 112x hybrid zoom that is only a notch or two less than the M30T. A current review shows the side by side and the M30 series wins, the Matrice 4 series is not too far off.
• Observed view on map showing that FOV of the camera along with your flight tracks, which is huge in SAR
• Drawing of shapes in camera FPV which overlay in AR
• Another note is that unlike the M30T, M300/350 and Mavic 3 Series the current DJI Maintenance interval does not have the 3 year, expensive premium maintenance listed.

I preordered one. I just hope this current Customs nonsense does not interfere with my order.

 

[adm_geomatics]

For those with a Mavic 3 Enterprise it might not be worth it to upgrade, but as you said if you are able to, I would so so.

On really large projects, the increased image acqusition will add up and time is usually money.

So other reasons this new drone rocks.

• Only this drone and the Matrice 3D or Matrice 30 Dock version allow for Virtual Cockpit in Flight Hub 2 allowing you to fly a drone from a browser anywhere in the world (with internet of course). Other models may follow suit though.
• AI. It can recognize people, vehicles and boats on screen with a max of 128. Better in images and HiRes Grid image it can count to 1000. Best yet you can signup for DJI AI Developer to train the AI for your own use case.
• Cruise Control
• Active Track, POI Orbit (Mavic 3 Series Has POI)
• Time Sync for highly accurate, precise mapping and modeling
• 112x hybrid zoom that is only a notch or two less than the M30T. A current review shows the side by side and the M30 series wins, the Matrice 4 series is not too far off.
• Observed view on map showing that FOV of the camera along with your flight tracks, which is huge in SAR
• Drawing of shapes in camera FPV which overlay in AR
• Another note is that unlike the M30T, M300/350 and Mavic 3 Series the current DJI Maintenance interval does not have the 3 year, expensive premium maintenance listed.

I preordered one. I just hope this current Customs nonsense does not interfere with my order.

I agree, if you are doing well with the Mavic 3E it may not be worth the upgrade until you hit your refresh cycle or move into use cases that start to become too much for it. A couple of notes from the detail provided. The Mavic 3E can use FlightHub and Virtual Cockpit. Also, obviously it has TimeSync so that's a wash. The rest are pretty considerable not only for reconstruction capture, but SAR as mentioned. Especially the Matrice 4T. Not mentioned is Smart 3D. That will be huge. My main disappointment is that they didn't include front OA via LiDAR. Huge miss.