September 2017

The Awesome Australia Australia is one of the dream destination people wanted to travel. Aside from kangaroos, there are lot of beautiful places with beautiful landscapes you could see if you travel here. Drone Photography Australia calls all drone photographers to take wonderful pictures to promote Australia’s wonder to people. Australia From Above An event has been organized in Australia called “Australia From Above” where aspiring drone photographers join this contest to take pictures of what is seen on Australia. All in all there about 6,500 images to see. Lisa Ronson who is the chief marketing officer of Tourism Australia and the judge of this contest was actually stunned with the pictures taken by the photographers. That May 19, three were selected as winners out of 12. The grand prize was a stay at “Wyadup Spa” and also the winner won a variety of DJI drone equipment with an Australia travel package worth nearly $22,273according to CNN Travel.com. Can you imagine there are plenty of outstanding photographers in Australia? Many of them are drone users. Next time this event will happen. It’s up for you to join and be excited. Australia has become a premiere choice as tourists’ destination. Looking […]

The accessibility and affordability of drones have resulted in many surveyors and mapmakers to adapt them as tools. Not only do they significantly shorten the length of operations, they also save money on work hours. Undertaking a successful drone surveying operation requires the surveyor to not only understand the tools available, but also to select the right ones since there are several different UAV/drones and payloads, drone autopilot software, and image processing software. Planning A UAV Surveying Mission Even before you get started, you need to ensure mission planning is successful. You will need several different software when doing mission planning. The aims of mission planning is to ensure – The mapping work follows all Federal Aviation Administration or European Aviation Safety Agency, or Civil Aviation Safety Authority rules and regulation, and does not enter any air space boundaries, The flight of the drone is done at an opportune time. This includes when there is a relatively clear sky, and when the place is most free of people. All the things needed for a successful drone surveying operation has been adequately taken care of such as the battery in the drone, and autopilot directives such as altitude and flight overlap. […]

Drones are here to stay. They have changed the way we do photography, inspections and mapping. While it is true that UAV do not necessarily create a special type of map unique to only drones, they make the surveying process easier and faster. A drone will enable you to do work that would otherwise take weeks to do. The accessible of drones, also known as UAV, has created mapping hobbyists. Easily accessible, high quality, relatively low priced drones that can be gotten online such as the DJI Mavic Pro and the DJI Phantom allow amateurs to create survey-grade accurate photogrammetric maps and three-dimensional models. At Droneworxs we use a Matrice M600 drone with RTK ( Real Time Kinematic ) both on the Drone and a base station to provide mm accuracy in the XY and Z axis Defining UAV Mapping Accuracy There are two ways expert view accuracy in relation to drone maps, and these are global (or absolute) accuracy and local (or relative) accuracy. Local accuracy / Relative accuracy: Relative accuracy is defined by given locations or points on the map. Relative accuracy is the degree of accuracy of points on a map to other points on the same map. […]