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South Central Kansas | For those of you new to aerial mapping and photogrammetry, understand that the camera on dji and similar drones, when used through mapping software like DD, your resulting crop health or vegetative index map will be relative to that day and timethe data was collected. An example would be if you fly a corn field on Monday without a cloud in the sky at high noon, your map will look different if you repeat the mission on an overcast day or even a different time that same day. The lighting conditions are constantly changing each minute of every day. You can use images from differing days to compare patterns. Keep an eye on clouds also. Puffy clouds will cast shadows on your subject area and give you false readings. Shaded areas will appear less healthy.
But if you follow good mission planning practices, DD has a guide on their website, you can gain a lot of insight with a phantom and DD. That's the beginning of the rabbit hole and it goes much deeper from there.
I encourage every producer I run into to get a UAS of their own and get mapping. There's much to be seen! A couple more sources other than DD that offer similar experiences are:
www.botlink.com
www.precisionhawk.com
They've got pros and cons, but thats for another thread. | |
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