Recording Data

This page describes the process of recording data with InFlight and having it automatically display in FireMapper. The types of data that are shareable include the drone’s location, photos taken, and any marked locations or flight paths.

Note

Please ensure that FireMapper is successfully paired with InFlight before proceeding.

Sharing Real-Time Drone Location

  1. Configure FireMapper in the User Profile Screen to allow location sharing.

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  2. Then simply run InFlight on your SmartController. While paired with FireMapper, the drone’s real-time location and orientation will visible on the FireMapper app and Online Portal.


Uploading Photos from the Drone

Any photos taken with the drone while connected to FireMapper will automatically be uploaded to FireMapper. Simply take a photo as you normally would either with the photo button on the pilot screen, or the hardware photo button.

Thermal Image Colour Palette DJI has a variety of thermal image colour palettes. The ability to select the colour palette within InFlight will be supported in the future, but in the meantime, the DJI Pilot app can be used to select the desired colour palette. Then InFlight will use the colour palette you selected.


Marking Locations

Inside the Pilot View, there are buttons to select a point type and mark a location. Use of the camera target is only available when the camera pitch angle is greater than 10 degrees below the horizontal due to increasing inaccuracies outside of this range. Note that the camera target is calculated based on a flat ground assumption and may have low accuracy.

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  1. Select a point type (By pressing the currently selected point type icon to the right of the GPS pin button) and selecting a point type.

  2. Decide whether to mark the drone’s location or the camera (or laser) target. The “change” button will allow you to switch between using the camera / laser target and drone location.

  3. Press the “GPS” pin button to mark the location.


Recording Flight Paths

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  1. Select the line type you want to use by pressing the line icon to the left of the “REC” button and select your line type

  2. Press the “REC” button

  3. Fly the path you want to record

  4. When finished press the stop record button