Mapping for Air 2S

[Solsearcher]

Hi all,

I have a potential client that is looking to get drone footage (pics) of a river that is flooding, in various locations. I must be able to have GPS coordinates "attached", (for lack of a better word) to them. I was initially looking at DroneDeply as a possibility until I see that it isn't working with the Air 2S yet. Then I looked at DroneLInk. I'm not sure either of these are what I'm looking for???
Can anyone offer any suggestions? In an ideal world I can tell the drone where to fly and photograph, and the pics and data would be fairly easy to discern.

If neither of these make sense, please tell me. I have an Android phone, and powerful Winblows computer.

Thanks!

 

[slup]

All pics you take with your drone will have the GPS position in the EXIF info ... in windows it's enough to just right click a jpeg, chose properties / information & scroll down a bit there for the GPS position.

 

[Solsearcher]

Thank you!!
lol....Too hard! j/k. Interesting! I've (obviously) never looked at individual pics to see the properties!
Ok, so that was easy, now what about "pre-programming" a flight path as if you were making a map? Any suggestions with that?

 

[slup]

Check out Litchi --> Litchi for DJI Drones ... easy to set up missions on your PC at home & then execute them with your MA2s.

 

[PHZ]

You may do a lot better (for mapping) with DroneDeploy and an aircraft that supports waypoints. Otherwise Litchi can be very flexible and a potential solution, but I believe that works better with a “waypoints” drone. Some good deals on M2 Pros out there.

 

[Solsearcher]

You may do a lot better (for mapping) with DroneDeploy and an aircraft that supports waypoints. Otherwise Litchi can be very flexible and a potential solution, but I believe that works better with a “waypoints” drone. Some good deals on M2 Pros out there.

Can't afford another drone just yet, so "stuck" with trying to make what I have work.

 

[Meta4]

Can't afford another drone just yet, so "stuck" with trying to make what I have work.

To properly carry out mapping missions, you need a drone that supports waypoint operation.
You have to fly a precise grid and capture a large number of images with 75% (or more) overlaps.
You just can't do that manually.

Here are some screenshot examples from a small mapping job:
Here the mission is underway and you can see the precise grid to be flown.

This is a plot showing the centres of the 84 images captured for a 13 acre site.

For bigger sites, you end up with several hundred images.