Recent content by Ericbjr1

What are the specs on the mini sd card you are using? We found we achieved much better results with a uch 3 (u3) transfer rate sd card.

To everyone following this thread. If you get the x7 be sure to use a u3 mini sd card. This seems to have resolved the blur issue. The drone simply couldn’t write fast enough to our u1 mini as card. Also a new firmware update yesterday had some good results and we flew two sites without any...

Tell me what specs you want and I’ll send you some raw files. I have a 16mm lens and a 24mm lens.

Negative commenting is fine but please provide more detail. What is it about the x7 you find unacceptable. My experience is that the photos taken are much more detailed. The folly I see is in the processing on board, and lack of third party support, but this will change as updates come out...

I own a land surveying company and we use drones for surveying. I have a phantom 4 pro which works pretty well. I recently purchased the x7 and inspire 2. The picture quality is far better with the x7 than the p4 pro. There are issues in that our third party autopilot doesn’t yet have support...

No... but could take perhaps 4 gcp shots rather than 15-30

I own EBI Surveying. We are a land surveying company with drones, licensed and insured. We use them for close range photogrammetry. Here’s the money maker... There are drones with RTK but for some reason the drone manufacturers believe that the position should be that if the drone. The real...

Being “good with drones” is quickly going to become like being “good at computers”. It is a field that many people find intriguing. Thus the prices to hire a drone pilot will diminish as more supply meets and exceeds the demand. Pilots will eventually lower the price to make sure they get the...

From where do you hail?

Reality capture creates a much more precise and dense point cloud. I've used photomodeler and photoscan pro and I find that reality capture is smoother and much (MUCH) faster. I've never used 3D survey. I have a dell precision with a 4.5 Ghz processor, 64gb 2400 ram and an 8Gb nvidia video...

Then it's out to recap pro, then civil 3D

Yes I merge them together to generate a point cloud in reality capture.

I fly the nadir photographs at 130 feet resulting in 1.1 cm per pixel. Then the obliques between 70-85 feet depending on environment (power lines and trees). No trouble with winds up to 20 mph. Since she will only fly up to 30 mph I wouldn't try much higher winds.

Let me also add... I have flown sites in 20mph winds with my phantom 4 pro. For about two acres I take about 100 nadir (top down photographs) using ground station pro. I like this because it will hover for capture allowing aperture priority to the smallest aperture (highest f stop possible)...

I am a surveyor as well. I use the phantom 4 pro. I get 0.05' accuracy verified by sample cross-sections doing roadway and commercial sites with my drone. I've been thinking of an upgrade to the i2 pro with the x5s. However with the results I get from the phantom 4 pro since it has the 1" cmos...