Remote Drone Mapping on Grand Mesa, Colorado

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We had the opportunity to pack up our UTV with the DJI Phantom 3 advanced drone, gear, lunch and head on out to the Leroux Creek area of the Mesa. It is approximately 12 miles on Forest Service roads and 50” doubletrack to access the watershed from the Surface Creek trailhead (map shown below). It is critical that the drone …

Build an Enhanced and Traditional NDVI with DroneMapper and Global Mapper

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Global Mapper: http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/index.php MaxMax Camera: http://maxmax.com DroneMapper: https://dronemapper.com/software_downloads   For more information on NDVI formula's please visit the following: http://www.maxmax.com/endvi.htm The traditional NDVI formula uses the blue channel for the NIR because the Kodak had created a special kind of color infrared film where the blue crystals could respond to blue or infrared light while the red and green crystals only responded to visible …

Build a bare earth DTM from UAV imagery with DroneMapper, LAStools and Global Mapper

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LAStools: https://rapidlasso.com/lastools NOTE: The "PREVIEW" step can take a good amount of time to complete depending on the number of images, image resolution, image megapixel, etc. If you are concerned that no progress is being made, please check the task manager and/or refer to the DroneMapper API status output inside the application. If you are checking progress via task manager, you …