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SLANTRANGE & DroneDeploy Function I: Flying Planning

By Matthew Barre, Director Strategic Development at @SLANTRANGE
This post originally appeared on the SLANTRANGE blog

We've been working hard with our friends at DroneDeploy to offer some bully new capabilities to SLANTRANGE customers. As many of you know, DroneDeploy is the leading cloud software platform for commercial drones and offers simple all the same powerful tools for flying planning, 2D and 3D map generation, data analysis, sharing, syncing, and much more than. While much of the power of our solution for agriculture drones comes from our rapid, OFFLINE data processing, many of DroneDeploy's deject-based tools can exist leveraged, when a network connectedness IS available, to raise the capabilities of the SLANTRANGE system.

Yous tin read about how to utilize the DroneDeploy "Map Upload" tool with SLANTRANGE data in Part Two of this series and we'll exist roofing our app in the DroneDeploy App Market in Part III, but Function I is focused on the DroneDeploy flying planner.

First things start, the latest release of the DroneDeploy mobile app now supports flight with SLANTRANGE! We're very excited to at present be able to offer admission to the industry's leading flight planning app for DJI drones, which includes offline planning, programme sharing, and many other neat features. The DroneDeploy back up pages provide excellent guidance on how to use their flight planner but we wanted to cover the specifics of using the app with SLANTRANGE in this post.

Step 1: Create a Plan

Select "Plan a New Flight" to create a new flight plan. After assigning a name to your programme, you can ascertain the boundary, add/remove points, and move/rotate your plan.

Step two: Set Distance, Overlap, and Speed

Important: This is where we wanted to provide some specific guidance as these settings are unique to using a SLANTRANGE sensor. Considering SLANTRANGE sensors operate completely independently, there is no connection to the drone or the DroneDeploy app. For the current version of the app, information technology assumes yous're flying a DJI X3 camera and then you lot'll demand to adjust the frontlap and sidelap settings to produce the appropriate overlap with your SLANTRANGE sensor.

You lot can utilize the tabular array beneath to decide the advisable settings for your desired flight. For each combination of Distance and Speed, the values in blue are the Sidelap / Frontlap settings to set in the app to reach the Desired Overlap shown at the tiptop of the table. Note that this tabular array is valid for both the SLANTRANGE 2i and the SLANTRANGE 2p sensors. If your specific combination of flight parameters is not listed, contact us and we'd be happy to provide a re-create of our calculator. Every bit a reminder, we recommend flying at xx% overlap for most use cases. And no, that'southward not a typo! Yous can read more about our low overlap requirements here.

As an example, if you'd like to deport a flight at 90 1000 altitude at 10 g/s with 20% overlap, you'd use the following settings in the DroneDeploy app:

Distance: 90 m

Sidelap: 61%

Frontlap: 80%

Annotation: An upcoming release of the DroneDeploy app will include our specific sensor parameters, assuasive y'all to set your SLANTRANGE flying parameters directly in the app.

Step 3: Complete the Program

One time you're happy with the flight plan, click the blue salve icon in the lower right to complete your programme.

Step 4: Wing the Plan!

Make sure to follow the SLANTRANGE Flight Didactics Checklist detailed in our User Guide.

Connect your mobile device to your aircraft remote controller via USB. Turn on your remote controller and aircraft. In the DroneDeploy app, select your programme and click the blue airplane button in the lower right to initiate your Pre-flying checklist. One time your Pre-flight checks are completed successfully, the aeroplane push volition turn into a bank check push. When you are ready to take-off, click the check and away y'all go!

While there are many other flight planning options available, DroneDeploy is now our recommended app to get the most from your SLANTRANGE sensor on a DJI drone. There are of form MANY other not-DJI drones and you can fly a SLANTRANGE sensor on almost all of them. Y'all'll demand to contact the drone manufacturer for their supported flight planners but Mission Planner is a great option for Pixhawk-based drones.

We promise you lot enjoy the simplicity and reliability of the DroneDeploy app and we're confident it volition be a keen asset to your agronomical drone imaging business. Experience costless to provide any feedback in the Comments section.

Bank check out Part II of this series and stay tuned for Function Iii, and be sure to subscribe to our blog for updates.

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Source: https://medium.com/aerial-acuity/slantrange-dronedeploy-part-i-51d151193774

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