Precision Droning: New Ground Station Pro for iPad App and What You Need to Know

Last month at CES, DJI released their new Ground Station Pro for iPad app. This free app is an improvement on the old Ground Station app from a few years ago that worked with select flight controllers and the Phantom 2.

The new Ground Station Pro app works with all DJI aerial platforms including the Phantom, Inspire, Matrice, and Mavic series as well as custom drones with DJI flight controllers. The app is built for three things:

1. Creating a Virtual Fence
2. Waypoint Flight
3. 3D Area Scanning

With the Virtual Fence, you can limit flight exactly, allowing the pilot to avoid going outside of a boundary where there may be obstacles of some kind. While in a Virtual Fence, the user flies in in Joystick mode. This mode allows flight through the box with almost no drift whatsoever. This could be useful when precision is required.

With Waypoints you can set up to 99 unique points and control all flight qualities including speed, altitude, camera orientation as well as do various actions including record, hover, or take a picture. Waypoints could be used to capture a complex structure, make a delivery, or complete a complex inspection procedure.

Lastly, there’s 3D Area Scanning. In 3D aerial mapping, getting the right flight pattern and overlap is very important. This app now takes out the need for calculation and takes care of it for you. The software will map out any shape of space. Soon, the app will also be able to 3D map tall structures with 3D Point-of-Interest mode.

Ground Station Pro for iPad is likely the first of many apps of its kind from DJI. It appears to be predominately built for 3D mapping and inspection as opposed to aerial cinematography. Some have already compared the app to 3^rd party apps such as Litchi and AutoPilot, but those were created for aerial cinematography as well.

As it has only recently begun being used, we will likely soon see many use cases in industries such as agriculture, architecture, search and rescue, inspection and many more.

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DJI GS PRO: THE NEW GROUND STATION THAT REVOLUTION YOUR WAY TO FLY

DJI has announced the release of GS PRO (also known as Ground Station Pro), the iPad app that allows you to control and schedule automatic flights for DJI drone.

Through a few simple touches on the screen, you can program complex and take pictures flights in points (waypoints) preset.

The Ground Station Pro is equipped with a new feature, the Virtual Fence, which gives greater security and ease of flight, as it allows you to lock the height and speed within a designated area. The Virtual Fence is very useful in scenarios where there are no-fly zone and can be of great help in the training of future pilots. Moreover, its size and shape are fully customizable. The Virtual Fence can be created both before and during the flight, using the position of the drone as a starting point.

But it does not end there. Other functionalities are 3D Map POI (soon) and 3D Map Area. We’ll analyze them in detail.

3D Map POI

With this feature you can create maps of structures of a certain height. You must simply choose the subject and set a distance between it and the aircraft. The GS Pro will then provide the relevant parameters, including speed and time, to turn around the structure. The images can then be exported into the 3D reconstruction software to produce accurate 3D models of the entire building.

3D Map Area

The GS PRO automatically generates the best routes, after the user has set the flight area and the parameters of the room, and the drone will follow the assigned trajectory. Later, the images will be included in the 3D reconstruction software to generate 3D maps and the mission can be saved for later use.

With the GS Pro you can adjust several parameters including: overlap, altitude, shooting angle, course angle and margins. You can also set up to 99 waypoints and adjust the speed, the pitch of the gimbal and the rotation of the drone (clockwise / anticlockwise).

Each waypoint can have up to 15 consecutive actions, including the rotation of the drone, the pitch of the gimbal, recording start / stop, capture photos and hover.
You can also set the actions End of Mission through the Return To Home, hover or landing.

Two flight modes are finally available: Inside Mode and Scan Mode. Inside mode with the drone will follow a trajectory generated automatically within the selected area and Scan Mode will be provided the fastest route to cover the designated area.

The Ground Station Pro is an excellent application that allow you to improve the performance of various sectors such as agriculture, security, search and rescue, electrical inspections and many others.

The GS PRO is compatible with the following DJI platforms : Phantom 4/ Pro , Phantom Standard 3 / 4K / Advanced / Professional, Mavic Pro, Inspire 2, Inspire 1, Matrix Pro 600, matrix 600, matrix 100, A3 / A3 Pro, N3.

Finally, it is compatible with all cameras of the series Phantom 3/4 and Zenmuse X3, X5, X5R, X4S, X5S and Z3.

 

 

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