The right flight decides your model.
Good photos are half the job. Four flight patterns cover most projects. Airclip Cloud turns them into your dimensionally accurate model.
Which one you need depends on the object: a single house asks for something other than a whole site. Flying for the first time? The quick start walks you through your first project step by step.
What do you want to capture?
- A single house, roof and façadesPoint of InterestNot for: sites, top accuracy
- A single building, as accurately as possibleSmart 3D CaptureNot for: entry-level drones
- Several buildings, an industrial estate, a streetArea route with oblique imagesNot for: single buildings in detail
- A construction site, stockpile volumes, an orthophotoArea route without oblique imagesNot for: façades
Point of Interest or Smart 3D Capture? Both capture a single building, and your drone decides. Almost any camera drone can fly Point of Interest, Smart 3D Capture only professional drones such as the DJI Matrice 4E. In return the result is many times more accurate: the drone flies along the façade a few metres away, while with Point of Interest it stays far off.
Optional. Leave it empty to see every pattern; typing hides what your model does not fly.
Point of Interest / Hyperlapse: one circle around the house.
The drone flies a full circle around the building, camera pointed at it the whole way. The pattern for detached houses and small apartment buildings.
Area route with oblique images: the façades too.
Straight lines across the site, camera tilted. That way the façades get their shots too, and the flight yields a complete 3D model.
Smart 3D Capture: the plan thinks along.
The drone flies along façade and roof just a few metres away. For professional drones, and many times more accurate than the circle.
Area route without oblique images: roof and ground.
Straight lines, camera pointing straight down. The pattern for roofs, areas and the orthophoto.
Overlap
On both area routes you set how much of the frame two photos share, along the flight line and from one line to the next. Which values fit, when to increase them and what that costs is explained under Overlap. Altitude, camera angle and number of photos depend on the pattern and are on its own page.