Interesting exercise but why not just use a Mavic 3M since it is already set up to do a much more accurate and faster job of accomplishing the same goal?
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...
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...
Wow that is pretty cool!
Thank you very much for sharing!
I only know very basic information on vegetation mapping, so please go easy on my questions.
You chose the hardware since this was low cost? Would a Mavic 3M have produced better...
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...
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...
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...
What is your friend hoping to get from this?
Is this just for visualization of the property does he want absolute accuracy to include elevations for contours.
Some points to think about
Below 80 70 overlap (You can go lower, but with such a...
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...
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...
For sale I have a DJI Matrice 30T drone. Roughly 24hrs of flight time. With it I have the hard rolling case, RC Plus controller, 4 - TB30 Intelligent flight batteries, and BS30 Intelligent Charging Station. I am located in Jackson, MI. The drone...
I'll add to @Dave Pitman 's great advice in that this would be one of those times appropriate for image editing. I use ACDSee to batch correct image exposure while maintaining the geotags containing the RTK geotags and accuracy properties. I have...
I'll add to @Dave Pitman 's great advice in that this would be one of those times appropriate for image editing. I use ACDSee to batch correct image exposure while maintaining the geotags containing the RTK geotags and accuracy properties. I have...