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South Central, Minnesota | Have a mavic 3 that’s great but taking pictures of tile projects, can’t get high enough o get a whole 40 or 60 acre patch in 1 shot for the tile map. What do I need to fly over 400, how long does it take ? Thanks |
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North Central Ohio | If you have a software like drone deploy or DJI Terra, you should be able to have it fly a route, have a significantly lower altitude, take pictures of the ground and then stitch those images together to create that map you talk about |
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NEND | This would be the best option. You’d have a much better resolution picture. Not free though. I haven’t did any Drone Deploy uploads for a while now, so I don’t know how much it costs. Or maybe there are free stitching options. You can use Drone Deploy to plan/fly routes for free though and capture the pictures. |
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Galena, IL | You can't legally fly over 400 AGL (there are exceptions). At 500 plus feet, you in in the zone that planes fly. |
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West Central Minnesota | bmatteson - 3/4/2024 22:48
This would be the best option. You’d have a much better resolution picture. Not free though. I haven’t did any Drone Deploy uploads for a while now, so I don’t know how much it costs. Or maybe there are free stitching options. You can use Drone Deploy to plan/fly routes for free though and capture the pictures.
WebODM is a free open source stitching software I have used. |
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NEND | How is that to use/learn? |
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Chebanse, IL..... | What you say is true, but airplanes can also fly at 200' AGL, or more, or less in Class G, fka "uncontrolled airspace".
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Chebanse, IL..... | Looks like DJI Terrapro is $4400?
I would assume most would want to find a service to do the stitching. I'm also guessing it takes more than a few minutes to stitch a field without a lot of experience with the software.
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West Central Minnesota | Getting it set up takes a little computer know how, or at least a willingness to learn as it is Linux based. There are directions that walk a person through it pretty well though. There is also a paid windows installer version ($64) if one would rather go that route.
Once it is set up, using it is not too hard, a computer with more RAM is better (will allow you to stich more pictures). |
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NW Ohio | unless they updated their software, you used to be able to go into the settings and adjust your maximum height.
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NEND | Ok, thanks |
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S.E. Sask. | Yes, the latest app update has limited mine to I think 400 ft. or less. Luckily I still had the non-updated app on my old phone so I use that one to fly. No limits. |
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| How does a 400 foot limit work when your hills are that high( or more)? |
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S.E. Sask. | IADAVE - 3/9/2024 20:44 How does a 400 foot limit work when your hills are that high( or more)?
400 ft. from wherever you started. So if you start out on a hill you are fine. Of course here in Sask. that is not a problem. |
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| That makes sense then.
It must have a barometric pressure sensor to determine elevation?
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West Central Illinois | It has GPS. It records take-off elevation. |
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| Thanks, That makes sense. |
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Durant EC Iowa | Just find a plane and pilot friend and take as many pictures you want from whatever angles you want at whatever altitude you want. |
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NW KS | NHpower - 3/6/2024 14:30
unless they updated their software, you used to be able to go into the settings and adjust your maximum height.
only because you can fly 400 feet over any object. so if you have a 300 foot tower you could fly 700 feet, but only 400 feet over said tower, not anywhere.
if you fly over 400, and get caught......... the faa can throw the book at you |
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Flying drone over 400ft
