Quote:
Originally Posted by Jims5543
Yup when you see a drone overhead they are looking in your windows. LOL!
Pics from mine and its maiden voyage. I think I was about 300 feet up here. There is no zoom function on the camera so I cannot look in your windows. If I fly lower than 100 feet I may be able to see you in your yard.
This is what 100 feet up looks like.
This one was over a customers 40 acre property the cleared square is where he is building his home.
I purchased this drone for Surveying, I am shopping now for mapping software so I can use it for aerial land surveying. Software ranges from $1500-$7000 I am trying to find something I feel will work best for me. In this instance I could lay down targets, put XYZ values on them then photograph the property from various angles and heights, then overlay the pictures into the mapping program.
It will grind the numbers and create a to scale 3d map of the land saving me 30 hours of field time, it will pay for itself on my first job using it.
I have my hobby license and am working on my commercial one. |
As a 43 year veteran of flying fixed wing model aircraft AND a Professional Land Surveyor:
1) You are using your "Drone" in the furtherance of your business. You should be licensed with the FAA as a commercial operator before using it in your business.
2) Good luck with your mapping software creating a usable TIN on that project without a LOT of manual intervention. You are mapping the top of the dirt in some spots, the top of the tall vegetation in others, the tops of trash and the tops of the trees in other spots. Looks to be once an open cultivated field. Now you've got vegetation growing in the bottom of the cultivated rows that will be mapped taller than the actual ground adjacent to them. How do you reckon that will work out? The drainage ditch with a lot of brush growing in it....good luck with that! There's a reason this technology works so well in the desert Southwest where nothing is growing amongst the sand and rock....
3) Better up your E&O Policy
significantly.
4) One man with a robotic total station or GPS and an ATV could have absolutely smoked that site and you would sleep much better at night.
Sincerely,
Your Brother in the Profession!