Drone mapping

[MarcCoderre1]

Does anyone have a workflow that they would like to share for imagery collection and subsequent processing of imagery shot from low level drones...specifically the DJI Phantom series of drones?  Looking for best practices, tips and time saver tricks...

[larryzhang]

Marc,

Worth to share http://3drobotics.com/mapping-drones/  on those aspects, including an engineering mapping UAV and a processing package (3DR & Pix4D).

As well known, X6  and Dragon 35 from Leica UAS is also very popular, which shows similar workflow as above. You can explore more details via Leica web

[larryzhang]

In addition, if you tend to acquire, process and serve 'oblique images' for perspective views of images by UAV for 3D Imaging and 3D GIS, the workflow and its solution (mostly with computer vision) would be different...

[CodyBenkelman]

Mark

sorry for the VERY long delay in responding.  We are working on specific workflows for drone imagery - you might want to see my related post at Re: Georeferencingwhitepaper to walk users through the various options - it depends on the configuration of the drone (? e.g. viewing nadir or oblique?), # of images, etc.

Let me know if you still need assistance...

Cody B.