UAV orthomosaic flight: Milk Island National Wildlife Refuge, Rockport, Massachusetts

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What I'm working on: 

I'm learning DJI GS Pro to plan and run mapping flights using a Mavic Pro, a Phantom 4 Professional, and WebODM.

Here are the results of the flight I ran at Milk Island off Rockport, Massachusetts. After kayaking there and running my ortho flight with GS Pro, I went home and processed the images using WebODM installed on MacBook Pro.

Above: Milk Island,  Rockport, Massachusetts, showing elevations created via DJI GS Pro, a Mavic Pro drone, and WebODM.


Above: Commonwealth of Massachusetts orthomosaic of Milk Island
 
Workflow:
  • install DJI GS Pro on an iPad
  • connect the iPad to your flight controller
  • collect image data using your DJI drone 
  • download the images to a desktop computer
  • upload the images to WebODM for orthomosaic stitching
  • process the orthomosaic using WebODM's elevation filter
  • display orthomosaic model as above
Advantages of the workflow:
  • DJI GS Pro and WebODM are free 
  • using them is intuituve
Disadvantages of the workflow:
  • DJI GS Pro is Mac only
  • orthomosaic flights run using DJI GS Pro time-consuming and require multiple batteries

Location: Milk Island, Rockport, MA 01966, USA

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