M600 Flight Over Eau Claire South Middle School Gardens

Introduction

The Geography 390 class took a trip to the South Middle School gardens to apply techniques learned throughout the semester to fly UAS. The first flight was done with a DJI Phantom Advance system, and captured imagery of just the garden. The second flight captured oblique imagery of the cars driven to the garden by students by a DJI Inspire. The third flight was done with a M600 UAS and captured imagery of the garden, field, and the surrounding areas. This third flight is what the rest of the lab is completed off of. This lab was designed to get students hands on experience flying drones, and seeing the process of imagery collection from start to completion.

Figure 1: DJI Phantom Advance and Topcon Survey GPS unit.

Methods

The resulting map is created using the process described in this blog post from earlier on in the semester.

Figure 2: Abe and Nathaniel setting up the GPS over a GCP.

Figure 3: DJI Inspire in the distance.

Results

Figure 4: Map resulting from data collection.