Before you head out to your flight location, see the Initial Setup for Flying, Flight Plans Settings Overview (Web app & Mobile app), & Making Successful Maps guides!
Project Overview
A Project is a location-based organization that centralizes your relevant drone data into one place, making tracking change over time easy and time-efficient.
There are five tabs within a project:
- FLY: Reusable flight templates can be found on the 'Fly' tab. A flight template is similar to what used to be known as a flight plan. The difference is that you can fly a template as many times as you'd like without copying it. This helps to remove variability when you're tracking change over time. See more info about the FLY tab HERE
- UPLOAD: The Upload tab on mobile will show you any pending uploads and processing datasets. If you need to upload data, you will use the Web app. More info about uploading HERE
- EXPLORE: Here is where you can view all your uploaded and processed data. See more info about the EXPLORE tab HERE
- CAMERAS: integrate a fixed camera feed of your site. See more about our fixed camera solution HERE
- REPORT: The Report tab currently hosts all your Reports on that project. earn more about Reporting HERE
Creating a Flight Plan
Review Creating a New Project for more information on how to properly create a new project.
Once you have created a new project, select the 'Fly'' tab in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
In the 'Fly'' tab, you can select the flight type you want to capture. There are several flight template options:
- Manual - Allows you to fly and capture data without a specific flight plan manually
- Agriculture
- Stand Count - Generates a stand count report
- Maps & Models
- Standard - Creates a map and model
- Facade - Creates a vertical model
- Corridor - Creates a long-distance map
- Media
- Panorama - Generates a spherical photo
- Video - Captures a high-quality video
- Photo Report - Captures high-quality photo
Start Point
When creating a flight plan, the start point will be generated closest to your current geolocation. The start point represents the first location the drone will head to after take-off, as well as where it begins taking images.
- Edit the map template by dragging the white outline markers of the map to create your desired template. You can also add points to your template by selecting the "+" to add markers surrounding the map template.
Viewing Overlays on the Flight Planning Page
Use one of your overlays as a guide for flight planning. To do this, head to the "Explore tab" at the top of your project. Select the overlays tab, then the overlay of choice. From here, you can toggle on the option to see this on the "Fly" Page:
Adding Additional Flight Templates
Utilize more than one flight template in one project! To create additional flight templates, click on the template selector at the top left of your screen, indicated with the blue "+" symbol.
Flight Settings
Your flight settings are critical. Understanding and adjusting these parameters and the Advanced Settings is paramount to successfully mapping across varied conditions and subjects. Altitude and overlap settings are the most crucial parameters to consider changing for each flight.
- Read more about Flight settings HERE!
After you fly
If your captured images do not automatically upload using Mobile Uploads, follow the Smart Uploader guide to learn how to upload your drone imagery.More Guides on Planning your Flight:
Mobile App Flight Planning
Planning a Video Flight
Planning a Panorama Flight
Planning a Progress Report Flight