Book 14 "GE Mapping" is now available.

The Mavic Mini combined with Google Earth for GIS Mapping.

The Mavic Mini is a lightweight affordable drone platform that will fit into everyone's budget. A great starter drone for GIS Mapping level orthophotography.

This new book will walk you through step-by-step on how to fly the Mavic Mini in manual mode to capture imagery for a rectified orthomosaic. No flight app currently supports the Mavic Mini. I am sure that they will at some future date.

Ground Control Points can easily be extracted from Google Earth for use with all processing applications to create a rectified orthomosaic to GIS accuracies.

The GCPs are approximate therefore they cannot be used for any boundary and geodetic surveys however they are close enough for GIS level mapping.

Step-by-step instructions on how to convert the GE GCP locations to rectangular coordinates and scale to ground if needed are provided in this book.

The rectified orthomosaic provides a current picture for any project site.

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Conclusion

Survey Mapping with a drone is an art form that surveyors can master with professional instruction and lots of practice.

Aerial mapping has been around since 1941 when the National Map Accuracy Standard (NMAS) first instituted standards for film photography.

Digital photography came into existence and the mapping standards were updated to include this format by the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) which is the current standard.

Drone mapping is now an everyday event that many surveying and engineering firms have integrated into their daily business models.

To get really good at drone mapping and the technology to process the imagery takes lots of practice to get professional results.

The Mavic Mini is a low cost professional drone that is capable of producing 2D and 3D mapping when flown under the right conditions and flight parameters.

GIS Mapping is easily obtainable with this little drone and Google Earth extracted Ground Control Points.

PRACTICE - PRACTICE - PRACTICE

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