DJI Phantom 4 Multispectral Image Capturing

The battery features a set of lights that indicate the amount of charge left, giving a handy visual guide to flight times. Once the drone is assembled and your mobile device is connected the controller can be switched on, followed by the . It’s then just a case of waiting for 6 GPS satellites to be picked up before you take to the air.

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Considering the class of drone here, there is a good amount of competition out there. We do not consider the Mavic Pro, Spark or other smaller folding drones to be competition. To us, competition comes in the form of larger drones that have, if nothing else, a hanging camera setup.

It’s a modest improvement from the Phantom 4, which is rated for 28 minutes and netted about 23 minutes of flight time in our tests. TapFly, which lets you move the Phantom to a point in space by tapping on it in the Live View feed, is joined by Draw. Draw works in a similar manner, but lets you draw a flight path on your screen. The drone will fly along the path, avoiding obstacles using its forward and rear sensors along the way. The drone also has a Sport mode, which increases the maximum speed to 45mph, but absolutely no obstacle detection is enabled. It can go faster with help from the wind—the app told me that my Phantom 4 Pro was flying around 50mph in Sport mode for a good stretch of distance during one of my test flights.

Much of DJI’s efforts over the past 18+ months have been focused on the Mavic series – from the Mavic 2 line to the sub-250-gram Mini. This is why it came as a shock that DJI announced the return of its Pro V2.0 drone earlier this week. Some enthusiasts have taken to the drone forums to predict a forthcoming Phantom 5 successor, despite rumors being all but dismissed at the same time the V2.0 was initially discontinued.

In cases where you need a lot of images, and a high overlap, this difference adds up. The best way to evaluate the price is to consider the average size of your projects and how many man-hours are spent shooting ground control. If you work on sites larger than 20-acres then the time savings from shooting fewer ground control points is very real and can quickly offset the increased cost of the dji fly RTK. For a non-RTK bird, the amount of ground control required for a job is a function of the height you fly at and the size of your site. About 5 GCPs per flight battery is a good metric to use for non-RTK. In our case the 60m flight proved the most usable as it had the right balance between image sizes, interpolation and flying height.