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.

 

[TreeLineView]

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.

ADM you mentioned that the Mavic 3 series is set to return. I have not been able to find any information on a new Mavic Enterprise class being mentioned anywhere. I also heard Greg from Pilot Institute say he has reports that the Enterprise line was switched to the Matrice line and that a Mavic 4E will is not in the future.

All my work is thermal inspection. I was really hoping a new small form factor would be released with a 1280x1024 sensor, but not sure that is coming anytime soon.

I asked DJI for a sample set to see what the enhanced thermal images in 1280x1024 look like. The sample set they sent was not the best for comparison and I don't have any information on GSD, overlap alt. The quick thermal map I created was poor quality, but again taken during the day and not in the palette I would have chosen for comparison. (See links below to visible and thermal map with thermal enhanced image at 1280x1024.

I only use the thermal map for a visual aid for my customers. (No temp values in that format), but was hoping that a clearer thermal image would render a better map. I have requested a demo drone to perform more side by side comparison between the 3T and 4T, but I am guessing the 3T is still my go to for thermal.

DroneDeploy

DroneDeploy

 

[jaja6009]

TreeLine, I think he means the Mavic 4 is set to return, but missing the Mavic 4 Enterprise versions.

I also was hoping that the 1280 sensor would come to the new lineup: M350/400 with H30T (Already Here), M40T and M4T.

I bet they throw the 1280 on a new M40T. With it having both a 1280 sensor and and IP rating and perhaps a better zoom, it places the M40T well above the M4T to help justify the purchase price.

Any chance you can share the dataset? I have access to Drone Deploy Enterprise through my school, it will take the thermal images and make a true radiometric map(If updated it yet for this new drone).

I would also like to play them them in Agisoft and with the new awesome thermal convertor tool a forum member made. It takes DJI RJPEG and converts them into TIF where you can then make a radiometric map in Pix4D or Agisoft. This new free version works just as good as the paid versions. If you read this, Thanks Miro!

 

[TreeLineView]

TreeLine, I think he means the Mavic 4 is set to return, but missing the Mavic 4 Enterprise versions.

I also was hoping that the 1280 sensor would come to the new lineup: M350/400 with H30T (Already Here), M40T and M4T.

I bet they throw the 1280 on a new M40T. With it having both a 1280 sensor and and IP rating and perhaps a better zoom, it places the M40T well above the M4T to help justify the purchase price.

Any chance you can share the dataset? I have access to Drone Deploy Enterprise through my school, it will take the thermal images and make a true radiometric map(If updated it yet for this new drone).

I would also like to play them them in Agisoft and with the new awesome thermal convertor tool a forum member made. It takes DJI RJPEG and converts them into TIF where you can then make a radiometric map in Pix4D or Agisoft. This new free version works just as good as the paid versions. If you read this, Thanks Miro

Glad to share. Do you mean the existing set I have or when I receive the Demo and create some new data sets? The existing dataset is not Radiometric and does not contain any temperature values.

 

[jaja6009]

The Matrice 4 demo set if you could.
Thanks in advance!

 

[TreeLineView]

The Matrice 4 demo set if you could.
Thanks in advance!

Sure, glad to. I'll PM you

 

[adm_geomatics]

TreeLine, I think he means the Mavic 4 is set to return, but missing the Mavic 4 Enterprise versions.

I also was hoping that the 1280 sensor would come to the new lineup: M350/400 with H30T (Already Here), M40T and M4T.

I bet they throw the 1280 on a new M40T. With it having both a 1280 sensor and and IP rating and perhaps a better zoom, it places the M40T well above the M4T to help justify the purchase price.

Any chance you can share the dataset? I have access to Drone Deploy Enterprise through my school, it will take the thermal images and make a true radiometric map(If updated it yet for this new drone).

I would also like to play them them in Agisoft and with the new awesome thermal convertor tool a forum member made. It takes DJI RJPEG and converts them into TIF where you can then make a radiometric map in Pix4D or Agisoft. This new free version works just as good as the paid versions. If you read this, Thanks Miro!

Unless I misspoke, the point was that the Mavic brand is allegedly going back to the consumer pipeline. Basically, keeping the Prosumer level and the Matrice is now the Enterprise line from top to bottom. Seems like it's coming full circle from when they went from the Mavic Air 2 and dropped it to just DJI Air 2S. I just hope they quit wasting everyone's time with the "Classic" nonsense... I feel for all the people that bought it only to find out what it can't do.