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It feels to me like mapping might be overkill for your intended purposes.
If all you want to do is fly down the river to get a lay of the land then you really don't need to worry about accurate overlaps, etc. You could literally just create a waypoint mission that followed the path of the river taking video or photos along the way. Photos would have the advantage of being geotagged - doing that in video is harder (but not impossible with subtitles). That would be available in the hobby plan.
Thanks for your reply Barry, sorry I should have mentioned I would like to import the images into QGIS afterwards, so I am hoping for something a bit more accurate. I have been building an offline map of areas I hike, ride, kayak etc. with layers using satellite imagery, aerial photos and lidar. Some of that data is excellent and up to date, but some is quite old and the resolution is terrible. I thought it would be great if I could make use of my drone to take a series of high res photos and overlay them on my map.
Which done do you have?
Mavic 2 Pro
OK. If you were on an enterprise drone then they have that feature but, unfortunately, you are left with either manually creating the flight with waypoints, creating small narrow maps that you can stitch together covering sections, or paying for a professional plan.
Thanks for your help, I ended up getting Hobbyist Premium to try it out. Unfortunately, once I had it all set up, created a map around my house and went to actually fly, I got a message saying I needed to upgrade to Elite to use a Mavic 2 Pro. Stupidly I assumed that the flagship drones would be compatible with all the plans, while the cheaper, smaller drones might only work with the lower tiers. Instead, it looks like the opposite is true.
Also, while playing around in the web app, I discovered it's not possible to change the capture speed (to combat the rolling shutter of the M2P) unless I have at least a Professional Growth plan, which is the equivalent price of a Hobbyist Premium plan every month. I can slow the drone down for the entire session, but that's just silly and a waste of time and battery. It's the same with taking HDR images, and I assume a bunch of other features will be gate-kept too.
Looks like a nice piece of software, but I can't justify the cost as a hobbyist, or support a company with such convoluted plans/tiers. I understand that a lot of professionals use this software, and they would take advantage of the cheaper, hobbyist tiers if they could, but there has to be a better way around it. Maybe they could just have AI analyse each mission and, if you are clearly doing professional work on a hobbyist plan, your account is suspended and credit card is charged. I'll be getting a refund and trying out Maven instead.
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