If you’re about to enter the drone mapping business you will soon learn that buying a drone is just the beginning. The second part of the equation is data processing and sharing it in a convinient way with your client. And if you don’t do it full time, it can be really costly.
Pix4D offer starts from $260 a month and DroneDeploy from $99 a month (DroneDeploy offers a free version but it’s very limited).*It’s not a lot but enough to make you think twice about doing a commertial project with your semi-casual UAV.
Now there is a solution. As of today, PrecisionHawk*offers*its PrecisionMapper platform for free. It can be used to stitch*together a orthophoto map from aerial data in both 2D and 3D, will now be free for up to 60 aerial surveys per year and a free data storage.*In addition, users can add ground control points and access free analysis tools including: volume calculations, 3D models, contour caps and multiple crop health indices, including NDVI.*All these features will let you easily perform casual drone enagements without any additional cost and using it, is really easy and straight forward (we reviewed the software*a couple of months ago).
With that move PrecisionHawk is looking to activate thousands of potential prosumer drone owners. Free software might be indeed a game changer and a way to stimulate the market and make drone mapping services widely accessible. Cool!
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