One of the uses I’ve been putting my drone to is creating high definition maps of areas. This is a relatively new service offering for Avios Aerial Media and I’m experimenting to find the best combinations of height, speed, picture overlap, and camera settings to achieve consistently good results.
The software I’m currently using is DroneDeploy which recently announced a host of new features. But the one that really caught my eye is that you can now 3D print your images!
Think about that for a minute.
Let’s assume you really like that beautiful old church complete with steeple etc. You can send your drone off to automatically capture images from all around it, upload those to the server and have someone 3D print a little replica of the church in a material of your choice.
Or you are about to start developing an area of land and need to show that to investors. Forget about maps. Now you can print a 3D landscape of the entire area and drop it on their desk.
How cool is that!!
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