Drone Mapping & Surveying

Who it's for

Pilots moving into technical mapping and survey work. You already know how to fly. This guide teaches you the far more valuable skill of turning a stack of overlapping photos into a survey-grade map — a measurable, geo-located picture of the real world that engineers, farmers, and builders will pay you for. It is a different discipline than cinematic flying, and it rewards planning over instinct.

What's inside

• Your Drone Is About to Become a Measuring Instrument
• How Photogrammetry Actually Works
• The Key Concepts, Named and Numbered
• Gear & Software, by Category
• Planning a Mapping Mission
• Ground Control & Accuracy
• Flying the Mission
• Processing — From Images to Map
• Deliverables & Use Cases
• A Mapping-Mission Checklist