DRONE MAPPING

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 MAHADEVAPRASAD P M
 MOHAMMED K HISHAM
 MOHAMMED SIDDIQ
 MONICA N
 SUMANTH Y C
 SUCHITHRASHREE M C
CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Objective
• Workflow
• Software
• Outputs
• Postprocessing
• References
 INTRODUCTION
Drones are the advanced unmanned aerial vehicles which have versatile applications. They
are used for the purpose of aerial surveying also referred as Drone mapping.
HISTORY :
 British Meteorologist E.D. Archibald in the year 1882.
 Principle: Remote Sensing & Surveying.

DRONE SUVEYING ?
A drone survey refers to the use of a drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), to capture a
number of geotag images with downward-facing sensors, such as RGB or multispectral
cameras, and LIDAR payloads.

DRONE MAPPING:
It the process of taking pictures from the air and using software to digitally
“stitch” them together into a 3D map of a worksite.
 OBJECTIVE
To generate 2D maps and 3D model of a surveyed area.
WORKFLOW
Site selection

Planning GCPs

Drone selection

 Flight path Flight planning

 Flight parameters (Drone deploy)

Image acquisition

Processing of images
 3D Point cloud
(Pix4D Mapper software)
 Orthomosaic map
 Digital surface model
Outputs
 3D Mesh
Site selected(Area of interest):
Ground Control Points :

GCPs are points on the ground with accurate known coordinates.

Usually 4 to 10 GCPs are required.
The coordinates are taken using Google Earth Pro.
Planning GCPs location in Google Earth Pro
Drone selected :

DJI Mavic Air 2S

Flight planning :
It is done by using Drone deploy
application.

Flight altitude = 200 ft.

Frontal overlap = 75% .
Side overlap = 70%
Flight planning using Drone Deploy
Flight planning using Drone Deploy
Fly & Capture images :
 Take off area should be in level and free from obstructions.
 Download or copy the images to the desktop.
 Review the images , delete takeoff & blurry images.

Proceed with processing step in Pix4D mapper software.

PROCESSING
Processing in Pix4D Mapper
Importing images
Selection of output coordinate system
GCP coordinate system
Importing GCPs
Marking GCPs
Reoptimizing the project
Processing area
OUTPUTS
Point cloud
3D Textured mesh
Orthomosaic map
Digital Surface Model (DSM)
Quality Report
 POST PROCESSING:

1.Clearing point cloud noise.

2.Point cloud classification.
3.Editing orthomosaic.
4.Improving the 3D textured mesh.
Clearing point cloud noise:
Point cloud classification:
Editing Orthomosaic :
Improving 3D textured mesh :
Distance measurement:
Volume calculation :
Area calculation :
REFERENCES :
Udemy’s course videos.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8ZbncaV3f_anQs_DoyKUxmNDApxM0HT8
Pix4D mapper video tutorial by “Pix4D” (Software learning).
https://youtu.be/rPPfCZ3hWDA Drone mapping-Pix4D Tutorial-Basic workflow
with GCPs.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8ZbncaV3f_anQs_DoyKUxmNDApxM0H
T8
Pix4D mapper video tutorial by “Pix4D”
https://help.dronedeploy.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500004964302-Mobile-App-F
light-Planning
(Flight planning)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hXxJqzrzXs-cOqs76OCgjBTYEDrNSMiH/view?u
sp=share_link
THANK YOU