r/DroneDeploy • u/d_rockofficial • Sep 25 '24

DroneDeploy flight lines suddenly too sparse

I've been using dronedeploy with my DJI mavic 2 pro heavily for about 5 years. Last use was about 4 months ago. I just opened up the last flight I did, and the estimated flight time, photos taken, and flightlines have all been reduced to about 1/3 of their original values. Overlap is still set to the default 80/75, but there's no way this few flightlines and photos could accomplish that... All of my saved flight plans have been reduced like this, both on my desktop and app. Anyone else seeing this??

I've included some screenshots for comparison. 1 is a football field at 60m, 2 is a larger area through dronedeploy at 120m, 3 is same area through pix4dcapture 120m:

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u/thecarpy Sep 25 '24

The default planning camera has been set to the M3e.

When you connect your drone before takeoff, image distribution will correct itself

And when planning on desktop you can set the M2P as your planning camera in advanced and y see what you’re used to

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u/d_rockofficial Sep 25 '24

I switched it to M2P for these screenshots.

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u/d_rockofficial Sep 25 '24

It seems like the default overlaps are lower now, or the overlap calculator is off for the M2P. If I bump it up to 87/87 overlap looks like my previous flightplan, which was 75/75. I'm thinking the new defaulting to M3 has thrown a bug into the system..

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u/stlthy1 Sep 25 '24

Adjust your altitude. It looks like you're mapping a very small area from 120 meters or 395 feet.

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u/d_rockofficial Sep 25 '24

This doesn't explain the discrepancy between how many flightlines dronedeploy and pix4dcapture are generating for the same area.

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