This guide explains how to navigate and manage your projects within the DroneDeploy platform. Projects streamline data organization by grouping all related flight plans, maps, media, and reports for a specific location.
What is a project?
A project is a central location to organize all data related to a specific site or location. It makes it easier to find your data, re-fly missions at the same location, and share a complete reality capture. You can create a new project or use the Quick Upload feature to automatically generate a project based on your imagery's EXIF data.
How to use projects
Create a new project
To begin, click the New Project button. Select the project’s precise location and then click Create project here. Give your project a name that reflects its purpose, such as a location or a client name.
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If you create a project first, you will be taken to the flight planning page to plan your first flight.
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If you have a dataset to upload, you can go directly to the Upload tab to create your first map.
Quick upload
Use the Upload icon to quickly create a project by uploading data without ground control points (GCPs). This feature automatically generates a project based on your imagery's EXIF data, saving time. When uploading imagery with GCPs or PPK files, it is best to first create a project at the address and then upload your imagery.
Plan a new flight template
Your project can include several different types of flights. You can create multiple flight templates for a project, and each can be re-flown. To create a new flight template, click the plus button, select the flight type, and then adjust the flight geometry and settings. You can find multiple flight templates in the flight template selector.
You can plan flights on both desktop and mobile. To plan a flight on mobile, select your project within the app. You will go directly to the Fly tab where you can update the settings and set up different missions.
For more in-depth guidance on flight planning, check out this article: Planning Missions
Upload data to a project
After you have flown your first mission, you can upload your dataset. Head to your project and click the Upload tab. Select the pending upload, or "flight card", that corresponds to your completed flight and click it to resume the upload.
To upload images from a flight not flown with DroneDeploy, or from different flights within the project, click New upload under the Upload tab. After you select your images, click open and then upload images. You will receive an email when your map has finished processing.
Key features
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Explore: Easily navigate back to your project from the dashboard to access your maps on the Explore tab.
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Sharing: To share your map, click the Share button and generate a specific link or invite other members via their email.
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Reporting: Navigate to the Reports tab to access annotation or progress photo reports. You can share or print reports for stakeholders.
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Exporting: To export map data, click the Export button at the bottom of the page. You can customize the export options to fit your needs.
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Help: You can find relevant help information on most screens at the bottom of the sidebar.
Limitations
The Quick Upload button does not allow you to add Ground Control Points (GCPs) at the time of upload. You must create a project at the address and then upload imagery if you are using GCPs.
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