Recent content by LaunchedPix

I just received an email from Drone Deploy with some bad news for Skydio pilots. Unfortunately flight planing and flying with Drone Deploy for mapping missions won't be possible soon. This is quite a loss of capability for doing mapping missions and 3D modeling. The Skydio2 is a great drone...

I suggest you send it in to Skydio to have it evaluated. About a year ago my S2 made a couple of emergency landings on it's own. After I sent it in I learned some sensor issues probably caused that behavior. I had it repaired (replaced) and although it cost some money due to it being out of the...

Some time ago I added up the lengths of all of the .LRV video files from my Skydio and that gave me the total flight time. These are .MP4 video files that are automatically recorded with and for the full duration of each flight.

I fly my S2 with either an iPhone or Android phone so I can't personally speak to the tablet question. I don't have a SIM card in the iPhone so it's usually used without any network connection (it works to fly the S2 with the app & controller without any issues). Sometimes I connect the iPhone...

I'm not aware of any simple way to check the total flight hours. Last June I computed the flight hours of my Skydio2 by adding up the lengths of the video (.LRV) files that are automatically recorded on each flight. It was interesting to see how it's usage varied with the season. I also...

I've used the new panorama skills but haven't tried the enhancements to the KeyFrames skill yet. Here is a short video what the drone sees during the panorama and some post processing of the images. Photogrammetry Applied Skydio Spherical Panorama Photos

Thanks. No. I haven't tried it. Are you a meshroom user? If so, how do you think it would perform on this data?

Out of simple curiosity I thought it would be interesting to see if I could create a 3D model from nothing more than an online video to see it it was possible to essentially transport myself into a virtual world across the country, back in time. I used a video from Skydio's YouTube channel they...

Since for inspection missions the task is essentially to image every surface of an object/structure in sufficient detail it's probably hard to do better than 3D scan. Ensuring full coverage and spatially orienting / locating each image to the object (to make sense if the piles of data you...

Thanks for sharing. That looks like a challenging place to map as there are some many tight spaces / visual occlusions.

Sounds like a neat use case. It seems like your looking for quite a complex & long flight path if 100 Keyframe points isn't enough. Can you fly more than one mission and edit the resulting videos together? Are you hoping to do it in one take to store the keyframes and refly the mission over and...

That looks pretty cool & useful!

I sure hope this technology can and will be applied to search & rescue applications. A recent PiXL drone show video/podcast mentioned the challenges in scanning a scene with a drone to do search & rescue operations. It's apparently & understandably challenging to keep track of the ground that...

FYI...nA few of the folders might contain extracted video frames. If the images are 3840x2160 then those are video frames.

I've shared a lot of Skydio2 photos over the past year that are freely available to download. Your welcome to use them as test images. Take a look at the "Drone Image Samples" and the "Photogrammetry Samples" pages on the site to find the photos. LaunchedPix – Sharing a Love for Drone Imaging