Category: Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

aerial view of a flooded footbridge vertically taken from a drone
Case Studies

Detecting change with drones – a Cyclone Jasper case study

In a recent lunch and learn webinar we explored the role of drone mapping in detecting environmental change. Here I’ll revisit the highlights of the webinar, diving into the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Jasper and examine how comprehensive datasets can reshape disaster response strategies. Tropical Cyclone Jasper threatened the far north Queensland region, providing an

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Case Studies

Thermal Drone Data on GeoNadir

Thermal drone mapping: A case study with SmartShot Photo We recently spoke with Michael Bevis, the owner of SmartShot Real Estate Photography in Texas, USA about how he has processed his thermal drone mapping data on GeoNadir for free to create insights for his customers. Michael has been in the real estate business for years

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Aerial view of a salt marsh from a drone
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Salt marsh restoration tracking with drones

Coastal wetlands form a crucial connection between the land and sea. They provide protection from erosion, habitat for important fisheries species, and store large amounts of carbon. While mangroves might be the most well-known type of wetlands, other elements of these ecosystems are just as important for broader ecosystem health. Salt marshes are one important

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surveying ground control point
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

How many GCPs do I need for drone mapping?

When it comes to geospatial data analysis and mapping, accuracy is crucial. One important tool that helps achieve high accuracy is ground control points (GCPs). In this blog post, I want to share my experience processing one of our recent datasets using different numbers of GCPs ranging from 1 to 5. Join me as we

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Praia Grande
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Using drones for mapping litter and inspiring students

Drone datasets can offer lots of valuable information about the world around us. But while they help researchers and industry solve the problems of today, they’re also helping inspire the generations of tomorrow. Eduardo Werneck is a geography teacher at the Catarinense Federal Institute in Brazil. He’s using drones to help train his students to

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Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

How to fast track your drone mapping analysis with keyboard shortcuts

There’s no doubt about it – drone mapping analysis and manually digitising a map can be a tedious task! But let’s not make it harder than it needs to be. At GeoNadir we are constantly looking for ways to simplify data processing and analysis workflows, so introducing keyboard shortcuts was a no-brainer for us. They

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Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

The top 10 environmental uses for drone 3D models

Most of us are familiar with the concept of 3D. It’s the difference between old school classic cartoons like Tom and Jerry and modern animation like Toy Story. It’s how our brain processes vision from both our eyes to give us depth perception. If our vision left to right is considered as two dimensions, the

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Getting ready to drone map
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

How to make an accurate and useful drone map

Keen to go beyond spectacular aerial photography or videography with your drone? Look no further! It’s time to develop a new skill and learn to drone map. With the right equipment and some careful planning, creating a map of your local ecosystems is super easy. It allows you to see how the environment changes over

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Drone mapping image of a school with lots of coloured rooftops, shade sails, trees, and an oval
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

School mapping competition uses GeoNadir

How cool is your local school? For the fifth year running, our sister company She Maps is searching for the coolest school with their annual school mapping competition. They’re challenging students of all ages to calculate the amount of tree-shade on their school campus, opening discussions about cooling, urban heat, landscape design, and climate change.

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Aerial drone image of a creek with deep red sands, coastal vegetation, and sand dunes
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

How to share insights from drone mapping data

As humans we like to simplify reality. To take complex systems or ideas and break them down into digestible, communicable chunks. It’s why we classify the Earth as ‘land’ and ‘water’. But the Earth is infinitely complex, as is the drone data that we capture about it. So how can we decomplicate things and make

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Drone Data Processing

What is the best online drone mapping software?

You’ve bought your drone and are keen to get into mapping your local ecosystems. Or maybe you’re still pondering the best drone for your application. Either way, you’ll need to make a choice – do you go with online drone mapping software, or a desktop package? If you have a high end computer with a

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Drone Data Processing

Software for Drone Mapping: Which one is the best?

Discover which is the best desktop software for drone mapping. We thoroughly tested four options to help you make the most informed choice for your projects! If you’re just getting started with drone mapping and would like to pre-process the data yourself, it’s a great idea to acquaint yourself with the range of desktop drone

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drone image of carrie bow cay
Drone Data Processing

Drone mapping an isolated reef in the Caribbean

People often ask me what inspired me to create GeoNadir. To be honest, first and foremost it was selfish intention to make my life easier. Since 2013 I have amassed a huge amount of drone mapping data, and I’ve always had the problem of how to store, process, and share it in a simple workflow.

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Yellow water billabong, Kakakdu National Park
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Mapping with the IUCN habitat classification scheme

We create maps to simplify reality. To tell stories about the complex world around us in easily understandable ways. One of the ways in which we do this is to create discrete categories, and assign different features into these categories. For example, we may want to create a map of the different types of habitat

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Three people gathered around a mobile device looking very excited
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Our ten best GeoNadir enhancements from 2022

In 2022 we were hugely fortunate to receive some funding through the Australian Government’s Boosting Female Founders Initiative that supercharged our GeoNadir development roadmap. Here’s our pick of the top ten GeoNadir enhancements that we’ve made to the user interface and user experience. We hope you love them as much as we do! 1. Create

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compass
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Four ways to georeference your drone datasets

Drone mapping allows you to quickly collect detailed information about an area. But in many cases, the true value of this data is in its ability to be related to other geospatial data, like field observations, satellite imagery, or even other drone mapping datasets. To do this accurately, your drone dataset needs to be georeferenced

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Florida wetland
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Mapping wetlands with drones and machine learning

Oftentimes, it is not until after an ecosystem or habitat has been degraded or lost that we realise the many services and benefits that it offered for free. Ecosystem restoration is one way that we can go about regaining these lost services. Wetlands are a valuable ecosystem that have been disproportionately affected by human activities.

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Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

The value of recreational drone mapping

At GeoNadir, we’re all about seeing drone mapping data used to its full potential. Many of the datasets uploaded to GeoNadir have been mapped as part of targeted research projects. But that doesn’t mean they can’t provide useful information to answer other questions. Similarly, the datasets drone pilots collect recreationally can offer valuable insight, even

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Nova Scotia Coastal Erosion
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Measuring coastal erosion in Nova Scotia, Canada

Who wouldn’t want a house with an ocean view? But for people in Nova Scotia, building a house on the waterfront can be riskier than many homeowners might realise. Coastal erosion is steadily chewing away at Nova Scotia’s coastline, placing homes and infrastructure at risk of washing away.  The Applied Geomatics Research Group at Nova Scotia Community

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Data management
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Drone Data Management (Simple to use)

At GeoNadir, we want to see drone mapping data used to its full potential. Here you will find information about our drone data management software and more.   As drone technology evolves, the fields and industries where drone mapping data can provide valuable insights continues to grow. But as we collectively gather more and more

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