Category Archives: Survey and Mapping Apps

Parrot Drones

Generally, Parrot has stopped producing drones for the general public consumer anymore. When you pull up their website you see the ANAFI AI and the ANAFI USA drones being marketed. You also see that Parrot identifies their company mission with building professional drones that focus on the needs for industries in: Inspection, first responders, firefighters,

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DJI Drones Used for Precision Agriculture Solutions  

DJI has developed a variety of aerial drones that farmers can use for monitoring and managing the health and potential environmental stresses for their crops and fields. The Agras T-Series Drones (T-10, T-16, T-20, T-30, T-40)are agricultural drones used for spraying crops and fields. It can perform multiple missions for surveying, mapping, spraying, and spreading.

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Parrot ANAFI USA

The Parrot ANAFI USA drone has a double optical 4K EO camera. It has zoom in capabilities from wide angle to telephoto (32X).  It can detect thermal data with high precision (within centimeters) from an altitude as high as 131ft. It is equipped with a FLIR Boson 320. The thermal camera has two thermal color

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SenseFly eBee X

It is a lightweight fixed wing drone. It provides accurate results (down to 1.5 cm/.06 in) using the built-in, on-demand RTK/PPK. As with other drones using RTK and PPK, it is not necessary to set ground control points (GCP) to achieve the desired precision in the mapping survey. It is compatible with several cameras that

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Dronesnerd’s Top 5 Agriculture Drones for 2023

The DJI Phantom 4 RTK is a quadcopter that has a built-in RTK feature and a 20-megapixel camera so it is capable of performing high precision mapping and surveying projects and delivering high resolution images. It has a decent flight time for a single mission (up to 30 min). 16,404 ft (5,000 meters) is the

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Indirect Measurement

Indirect measurement is typically used in science to ascertain the size of something that can’t actually be measured in a directly quantifiable way. Thus, it is necessary to estimate the desired target size by measurement of a known object or area and extrapolate the unknown value from the known values directly measured. Learn More (Last

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Agisoft and Agisoft Cloud Applications

Agisoft Agisoft is a photogrammetric processing application for digital images captured during fight survey missions . It generates 3D geospatial data that is used in Geographic Information System (GIS) operations and indirect measurements of objects across a variety of scales. Agisoft Cloud This is an online platform that can be used for field inspection, interpreting

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Drofika

Drofika is an AI-powered fog computing platform that has pre-built, customizable application conditions. It is able to work with existing infrastructure as well. A fog computing platform allows for scalability for your computing projects and provides resource virtualization that lets you perform real-time and non real-time computing. Learn More (Last Edit 19 Feb 2023, Kellee)