- Check before you leave the office. Check with the local authorities and the rules and regulations to make sure you are allowed to fly at the planned location. Confirm the weather is suitable, with no rain or storm. Check the battery of the drone and of connected devices, and make sure the memory card has enough space or is emptied beforehand. Carry extra batteries or memory cards depending on the size of the site.
- Plan your flight. Start with the drone flight planning app on the tablet. Tap and drag the points around the site you want to survey, or import a KML file. Account for slopes, tall objects and altitude differences. If required, adjust flight settings such as altitude, ground sampling distance (GSD), flight direction and image overlap.
- Set up your flight in the field. Unpack and assemble the drone and check that it is ready to take off in safe conditions. Follow the checklist and validate every parameter, for example the calibration of the airspeed sensor and removing the camera lid.
- Fly and collect images. Once you press take-off, the drone takes off automatically, captures images and lands where it started. Check that no one approaches the drone during take-off or landing, and that the weather stays suitable throughout the mission.
- Geotag your images. After one or several flights, import the images into software to tag them. Geotagging assigns a geographic position to each image, either in a separate CSV file or in the image metadata.
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