It�s now time to put theory to practice!
We will now take you through the workflow for flight planning
and GCP positioning strategy for one of our projects.
While I have gone into complete detail about flight planning in part 1 of this course series,
I will revisit it here for this project..
I�ve opened the dronedeploy desktop application to plan my flight.
To start planning a flight, first click on �Plan�.
It takes you to a default location
You can use this search bar to locate your site... The other option is to use the �Import kml or shp�
option which I�ve explained in part 1 of this course. I�m just going to type in the name of the city in which my site is. I�m familiar with the city and the site location
So I'm going to jump right into it.
First let me show you what the site boundary is.
These are the boundary vertices.
So, I�m going to first create a flight plan exactly along the boundary of the site.
I will change the sidelap and frontlap to 80%.
And the altitude of the flight to 50 meters to get a good ground sampling distance.
Now, in order to ensure that I don�t miss out on any part of the site during my image capture process,
I will extend the boundaries slightly on all sides.
Now, let�s work out the points where I want my GCPs to be.
I want them to be on the 4 corners of the site and one in the middle as shown in this illustration.
This is a good GCP positioning strategy.
I�ll name this flight plan as Mysore site and save it. And we�re all set!