Anyone know of a way to measure an area accurately with a drone? Specifically a roof. I'm using a Phantom. Sure there's an app for that, one for everything else.....right?
It's a bit complicated for the average user but I fly a Dronedeploy mission to create an orthophoto which I output to Google Earth Pro and use the measuring tools there.Anyone know of a way to measure an area accurately with a drone? Specifically a roof. I'm using a Phantom. Sure there's an app for that, one for everything else.....right?
drone deploy has a in app add on service that you flit the roof send them the pictures and they send you a report back with all the detail. They charge like $30 but first one is free. I thought this would be a good service to sell to roofers. However I found quickly most roofers use a web service to get all measurements generated much cheaper than the time and effort it would take to fly the mission, so that’s not much a service that could be sold.
Dronedeploy supports 2d area and length measurements using annotations. Accuracy on smaller areas using the free version might be a issue depending on the demands. For 3D measurements such as tilted roof, several desktop tools are available but a cheap workflow is not easy though possible. Have a look at cloudcompare as a start.Anyone know of a way to measure an area accurately with a drone? Specifically a roof. I'm using a Phantom. Sure there's an app for that, one for everything else.....right?