Mavic Mini first mapping mission

Mavic Mini

The Mavic Mini is a new drone from DJI that is lightweight and packed with features that can be used for small scale 2D mapping missions.

Mapping missions will need to be flown manually. There are no flight mission apps that support the Mavic Mini, at least not yet.

Below are the flight parameters for the Mavic Mini.

For the first flight, I flew a portion of my street for testing purposes.

For the GCPs I located visible features in Google Earth to extract the Lat/Long/Elev for 5 points to use to rectify the imagery.

The residuals are better than I had expected considering I am using Google Earth GCP values.

The image detail for the ortho is better than I had expected.

I overlaid the Mavic Mini ortho in Google Earth and it lines up perfectly.

Conclusion

I am going through an extensive testing of the Mavic Mini and Google Earth Lat/Long/Elev values to determine what the limits are for this combo.

I am preparing a book that will detail the process of how to use this combo on projects that don't need the high accuracies that are normally done to survey design level. GIS and small residential sites can benefit from this low cost solution.

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