Construction Monitoring with Sub-249g Drones Flying Weekly Automated Missions - Magil Construction Use Case
Check out another use case featuring how Magil Construction, a general contractor in Canada, has scaled their internal drone program by automating weekly progress monitoring missions using sub-249g micro drones. These drones have many advantages in countries around the world, and automating weekly missions that are processed in Pix4D has enabled them to drive improvements in project management processes and quality control.
The video covers some of these notes, reviews various missions that Magil deploys in a multi-user account and how that has helped them scale, and reviews how restrictions zones were used in a more complex downtown project site.
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Thanks to the Magil Construction team for allowing us to share this with the community!
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The combination of Mini2 and Dronelink is just awesome, good to see it being put to such good commercially, I love flying my mini2 with Dronelink
Nicely done video.
Interested to know what people think about the spiral orbit instead of a normal orbit for the nadir photos - is that better?
Just had a quick play a straight forward 230 foot radius orbit on a single rotation gives 51 photos, whereas a spiral orbit starting at 230 feet, and ending at 148 over 2 rotations gives 83 photos, so i would think going to give better overlap
Magil was using the spiral to get some obliques to complement the NADIR map data. Doing multiple rotations while increasing radius helps achieve multiple vantage points of any particular point in the scene, helping the photogrammetry engine do a better reconstruction. This is definitely going to result in a better model then say a single orbit.
Thanks, Jacob Rachniowski
That's an interesting update - I may need to run a test or two and perhaps update my standard 3D mission plan.
Hey Jacob Rachniowski, thanks again for featuring us. If anyone has any further question on how we're using Drone Link on our projects, I'll be happy to answer
Great use case and amazing to see somebody getting quality results with a mini-drone!
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