I've never used Tower or Mission planner for actual flights but a situation has come up where I'd like to get a 2D map of an area that's approximately 77 acres, 1300 ft x 2600 ft. I don't need geo-tagging, just a relatively high resolution photo of the entire area. I have a Solo with the mRo m8n GPS upgrade, a stock Gopro Hero 4 Black but stock antenna's and wifi.
So, questions are:
-Will the stock GP4B work for the photos?
-Could an area this size be done on one battery, depending on settings? I did do a 360 pano of the area from 295 ft with the default photo settings (12mp, wide) and the resolution was good enough for my purposes. If I have to change batteries, do the current versions of Tower and/or Mission Planner allow for this?
-I'm almost guaranteed to lose connection to the controller during some parts of the mission, can either Mission Planner and/or Tower compensate for this?
I've been reading up on Tower and Mission Planner but I'm finding conflicting information. I have to drive some distance to get to this location and it's pretty much going to be a one off mission (maybe more depending how this turns out) and there aren't any areas close by that size that I could practice this in. There are smaller areas close by that I can do test missions but it's the controller signal loss and battery changing that I'm mainly wondering about. Mission Planner seems to be the more robust of the two but seems to have a steeper learning curve.
Any recommendations, help, tips, info greatly appreciated!
So, questions are:
-Will the stock GP4B work for the photos?
-Could an area this size be done on one battery, depending on settings? I did do a 360 pano of the area from 295 ft with the default photo settings (12mp, wide) and the resolution was good enough for my purposes. If I have to change batteries, do the current versions of Tower and/or Mission Planner allow for this?
-I'm almost guaranteed to lose connection to the controller during some parts of the mission, can either Mission Planner and/or Tower compensate for this?
I've been reading up on Tower and Mission Planner but I'm finding conflicting information. I have to drive some distance to get to this location and it's pretty much going to be a one off mission (maybe more depending how this turns out) and there aren't any areas close by that size that I could practice this in. There are smaller areas close by that I can do test missions but it's the controller signal loss and battery changing that I'm mainly wondering about. Mission Planner seems to be the more robust of the two but seems to have a steeper learning curve.
Any recommendations, help, tips, info greatly appreciated!