Hi Folks,
Does anyone know a hack to extend the 500m radial limit in Ground Station, other than resetting home location?
I recently bought a Phantom 2 vision plus. I intent to use it to map a 10 x 10 kilometer area of salt marsh in Georgia as part of my graduate research. The imagery will be stitched into a 3D model using PhotoScan a software by Agisoft. The use of ground station to program a flight plan will improve my results by flying a constant speed so that pictures are evenly spaced. The 500m radius limit really restricts the area that I can map in one flight. Essentially I would have to program and fly at over 100 locations to cover my study area. I have read about people resetting the home location to extend range, however I don't think this is a good option for me, because it will use up battery time as I create new waypoints on the fly and I don't like the uncertainty involved especially since i will be flying over a lot of water.
GearLoose talks about a kickstarter drive for a new mapping tool.
The use of drones and mapping software opens up a whole new world of possibilities and it seams such a shame to be limited by such a small area. If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!
Does anyone know a hack to extend the 500m radial limit in Ground Station, other than resetting home location?
I recently bought a Phantom 2 vision plus. I intent to use it to map a 10 x 10 kilometer area of salt marsh in Georgia as part of my graduate research. The imagery will be stitched into a 3D model using PhotoScan a software by Agisoft. The use of ground station to program a flight plan will improve my results by flying a constant speed so that pictures are evenly spaced. The 500m radius limit really restricts the area that I can map in one flight. Essentially I would have to program and fly at over 100 locations to cover my study area. I have read about people resetting the home location to extend range, however I don't think this is a good option for me, because it will use up battery time as I create new waypoints on the fly and I don't like the uncertainty involved especially since i will be flying over a lot of water.
GearLoose talks about a kickstarter drive for a new mapping tool.
It sounds as if the tool is like a cloud version on the software I am using - which is an interesting idea. It also clams that it can be used for flight programming, personally I have my doubts that it will interface with ground station and that it would be able to over ride the 500m radius limit that DJI have imposed.
The use of drones and mapping software opens up a whole new world of possibilities and it seams such a shame to be limited by such a small area. If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!
