Zoological Society London (ZSL)
I've been using the free version of dronedeploy for preplanned drone surveys for creating photomosaics. This has worked reasonably well for me, but I want to swap from using phantom to mini (not currently supported by drone deploy). Does anyone have any recommendations for other flight planning & flying apps?
20 December 2024 1:37am
I believe map pilot pro allows for mapping with the DJI mini or another app I've heard people use is called map-creator. I think the later is a bit harder to get up and running. Third option is to take pictures the best you can in a double grid format and then use a stitching program to analyze the results. Pix4D and Agisoft are commercial options meanwhile OpenDroneMap is open source and has a lot of functionality. I ran into a similar problem when trying to use a DJI mavic air and they hadn't released an SDK.
22 December 2024 8:12am
Hi Chris! Yes, I use Drone Harmony. Although not free, the Basics package is very reasonably prices and allows for quite a good variety of flight mission planning options. It also runs a variety of DJI drones including the Mini and other Mini Models
23 December 2024 8:40pm
I've used both Dronelink and Litchi for flight planning with my DJI Mini SE - and then stitched in WebODM. Both apps support most DJI drones that have a suporting SDK. I'm not aware of any solutions that support any DJI drones without an SDK - and the more recent mini models doesnt have published SDKs since it seems DJI is limiting it to their enterprise level drones only.
Hope this helps!
Heinrich
Matthew Duggan