I became interested in flying drones in part to have access to better aerial imagery for GIS purposes. I created this from 69 aerial images flown ~80 metres taken last August, stitched them together in Pix4D, and the output’s been wonderful. While I could certainly repeat with an actual flight plan (I eyeballed my route) and way more imagery, I’ve been impressed with the process: along with this and from Pix4D, I derived a DSM, 3D textured mesh and point cloud. Looking forward to figuring out what else I can do with this technology.
I have a lot to learn about drones, drone photography, and image processing and am thoroughly looking forward to the process.














