Recent content by S&S_Shovelhead

Yes, it crashes probably 20% of our flights. I did infact try it on this job and it flew out to the border of me losing connection with the drone and stopped and hovered there. It's too unreliable to use for my self. I will be looking into using UgCS and report back on how that works for us.

Yea I don't touch the card until I'm back at the office. By then the battery has been removed for some time.

Hello, I received a job last week to fly approximately 900 acres with a topographic relief of 400m. My client requires an orthophoto (5cm GSD) and a DEM. I went out and set 14 GCPs around the site and tied them in with RTK. Half of the site is in an altitude limited zone of 60m due to a nearby...

Hello, I have had an issue lately with my phantom 4 pro, after a day of collecting images I return home and try to remove the images from the SD card by copying and pasting them on my PC desktop. It usually works for 5-10 photos then I get a pop-up warning "You need to format the disk before...

Civil 3d for the .las for surface creation And I put my model in Google Earth, and the Ortho as well.

I've been a surveyor for about 15 years now and over the last year I've been doing aerial surveys with a p4p and photoscan. My deliverables include: An .las point cloud Georeferanced orthophoto A flythrough with my model inserted into Google Earth And a photoscan error report I'm interested in...

Hello all, I have been a land surveyor up here in British Columbia for the last 8 years and recently ive started to play around with my phantom 4 pro and photoscan to create orthophotos, point clouds ECT. This summer ive decided to take a break from surveying and am working as a wildfire...

Do you have any links to these comparisons you speak of?

Found a site and field work begins on Sunday. I will continue to uodate this thread.

I wanted to go into depth a bit more of how I plan to carry out the project. My overall goal is to determine under what circumstances it would be beneficial to carry out a survey using a UAV vs traditional methods. I will perform the following comparsions; Cut/fill - I will compare the...

Hello all, to finalize my bachelors degree in Geomatics I am required to complete a large project of my choosing. My outline is as follows, any input, tips or suggestions would be much appreciated. A COMPARISON OF ACCURACY AND OPERATIONAL CONSTRAINTS OF UAV SURVEYING VS. TRADTIONAL SURVEYING...

Agisoft for dtms and either agisoft of civil for contours

I am a licensed land surveyor. Nothing I mentioned requires a licensed land surveyor in BC (where I'm from) however. Everything I have described I have already produced.

Hello all, I'm putting together a presentation for potential clients and am itemizing the advantages, deliverables and applications of drone surveying. This is what I have so far, please feel free to add to it. Advantages: More complete data set, faster and safer data acquisition, can combine...

Is there a program that will let me digitze in the obliques besides Pix4d or datusurvey? Is no one here making site plans? If so how are you doing it?