Good morning,
I'm looking for advice on which drone to use for a large video inspection job.
Specs:
- Video inspection of an 80 km long pipeline Right of Way / Corridor
- Video specs: 4k 60fps
- I need a real-time map overview of the drone position and the corridor boundaries
- I'll be flying this manually so that i can fly down and inspect any potential issues - so i need to be able to see where i am in relation to the corridor boundaries.
- My current drone is Mavic3M - i've done video inspections of long pipeline corridors, but the M3M only allows for 1080p30 or 4k30 video - no 4k60 option available.
- My phantom 4 proV2 can do this, but its an older platform and batteries are not lasting quite as long, and i'll need to upgrade sometime
- I would probably look at the Mavic3 Classic or Pro because i can share batteries with my M3M, and they both have 4k60 video, but I don't know if its possible to add a KML boundary of the pipeline ROW.
- I know there is no SDK / 3rd party apps for the Mavic3 consumer drones.
- I'm open to non-DJI / mavic options here if there is no other solution.
- For reference i'm experienced with GIS software so can convert my pipeline corridor boundaries between kml/shp/gpkg/csv etc.
I'm looking for advice on which drone to use for a large video inspection job.
Specs:
- Video inspection of an 80 km long pipeline Right of Way / Corridor
- Video specs: 4k 60fps
- I need a real-time map overview of the drone position and the corridor boundaries
- I'll be flying this manually so that i can fly down and inspect any potential issues - so i need to be able to see where i am in relation to the corridor boundaries.
- My current drone is Mavic3M - i've done video inspections of long pipeline corridors, but the M3M only allows for 1080p30 or 4k30 video - no 4k60 option available.
- My phantom 4 proV2 can do this, but its an older platform and batteries are not lasting quite as long, and i'll need to upgrade sometime
- I would probably look at the Mavic3 Classic or Pro because i can share batteries with my M3M, and they both have 4k60 video, but I don't know if its possible to add a KML boundary of the pipeline ROW.
- I know there is no SDK / 3rd party apps for the Mavic3 consumer drones.
- I'm open to non-DJI / mavic options here if there is no other solution.
- For reference i'm experienced with GIS software so can convert my pipeline corridor boundaries between kml/shp/gpkg/csv etc.