flight planning – JenaCopterLabs

July 21, 2026

Summer `26 Park3D flight campaign finished

Summer Campaign 2026 – SPSG Parks, Potsdam The summer flight campaign of 2026 has now come to an end. This week we completed the final acquisitions over Pfingstberg and Ruinenberg, concluding eight consecutive days of airborne data collection across the historic park landscapes of the SPSG in Potsdam. In total, approximately 800 ha were surveyed, acquiring leaf-on DJI L2 LiDAR...

"forest decline"/Crown Structure/Forest decline/L2/LiDAR/Park3D

April 17, 2026

Leaf-Off Flight Campaign in Park3D in`26

In march 2026, we began acquiring leaf-off data over all SPSG park areas in Potsdam as part of the Park3D project. This effort was primarily motivated by the improved potential for precise tree crown segmentation under leaf-off conditions. A key challenge in deciduous tree crown segmentation is that it is often not possible to directly verify whether a segmented...

"forest decline"/Crown Structure/L2/LiDAR/Park3D

March 31, 2026

Micasense Altum-PT Data Capturing and Processing – the Park3D Project

Another report from the Park3D project in cooperation with SPSG (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser & Gärten). Using multispectral cameras on UAV platforms has been not so straight forward in the past and the situation hasn’t changed much. If you are used to the Mavic 3 Multispectral RTK or the Phantom 4 Multispectral RTK systems than the integrated way how DJI...

Agisoft/Altum-PT/Forest decline/Park3D/Reviews/Workflow

August 27, 2018

Erste urbane Copter Befliegung über Jena

In Kooperation mit der Abteilung Geoinformation (Leitung Dr. Markus Meinhardt) der Stadtverwaltung Jena ( Dezernat III – Stadtentwicklung & Umwelt, Fachdienst Stadtumbau & Infrastruktur) wurde erstmalig durch den Lehrstuhl für Fernerkundung mit einem Quadrocopter eine städtische Flächenbefliegung durchgeführt. Ziel ist hier die Ableitung georeferenzierter Ortho-Bildmosaike (sogenannte “True Ortho Bilder”), ein Gebäudehöhenmodel und ein texturiertes 3D Fassadenmodel. Im Rahmen der Befliegung wurden...

Agisoft/Phantom/Quadrocopter/urban

September 26, 2017

“DJI GS Pro” – Ground Station Testing

Some tests using the DJI GS Pro (Ground Station) software for automatic flight programming with the Phantom 4 Pro. New flight campaign at the Kuckenburg spot (Sachsen-Anhalt) finished with two different flight altitudes using DJI GS Pro – mapping the open archaeological excavation site of medieval church now in September 2017. This worked flawless – the only problem: you kind...

Archaeology/Quadrocopter/Software/Workflow

September 4, 2017

3D Point Cloud Mapping for Archaeological Applications

Agisoft/Archaeology/Phantom/Point Clouds

June 15, 2017

Erste Lehrbefliegung für den BSc Geographie

Lehrbefliegung für GEO214

Point Clouds/Quadrocopter/Teaching

March 27, 2017

Using DroneDeploy and the POI mode for automatic point cloud mapping

Using DroneDeploy and the POI mode of DJI. Have been doing some leaf-off flights now in March on one of my favorite sites for complex tree crown point cloud mapping. To add to the leaf-on data from last autumn. Fig.: Leaf-Off point cloud with combined height color coding and reflectance color coding. This time I also checked the full automatic flight...

Point Clouds/Software/Workflow

February 21, 2017

NoFly Zones

For flight planning usually some information about the restricted zones is important. Some nice net finds: Flugbeschränkungsgebiete/NoFly Zones nice map is avail here http://maps.openaip.net A map with the national parc areas in Germany is available here: http://www.geodienste.bfn.de/schutzgebiete/#?centerX=3799285.483?centerY=5822015.931?scale=5000000?layers=524

NoFly Zones

Tag: flight planning

Summer `26 Park3D flight campaign finished

Leaf-Off Flight Campaign in Park3D in`26

Micasense Altum-PT Data Capturing and Processing – the Park3D Project

Erste urbane Copter Befliegung über Jena

“DJI GS Pro” – Ground Station Testing

3D Point Cloud Mapping for Archaeological Applications

Erste Lehrbefliegung für den BSc Geographie

Using DroneDeploy and the POI mode for automatic point cloud mapping

NoFly Zones