We’d like to request the ability to process thermal imagery from the DJI Matrice 4T in Site Scan Manager, in order to create radiometric thermal orthos.
I am a GIS Technician with the Douglas County, Nebraska GIS dept. and one of two drone pilots we have. My coworker @SteveCacioppo and I started our drone program over five years ago in 2020 and have flown over 500 flights. We started flying the Matrice 4T this summer, with many autonomous flights including thermal.
We already use Site Scan Manager to process all our drone imagery and have processed several thermal orthos. Currently we are only able to process thermal orthos which show relative temperatures, but we would like to have radiometric thermal orthos where we can identify temperature values for pixels.
We have received interest from county and city departments for thermal projects ranging from a heat resilience project to capture baseline temperatures and post-project conditions, to bridge deck inspection for identifying delamination.
Having a radiometric thermal ortho would allow us to make more specific comparisons when looking at temperature differences, enabling metrics over time and adding value to thermal imagery projects.
