Even if you don’t use it as a still photography tool, being able to explore a location from a first-person perspective without leaving your seat is simply incredible. Immediately after landing the Phantom 4, you’re able to review photos and videos on your iPad. Since it’s 4k, you can not only crop into the video footage quite comfortably, but also grab video stills to be saved as JPEG photo files too.
Its “intelligent flight” battery and charging station are in the box. The ground station features a remote control and telemetry console with integrated tablet. This integration gives a consistent product feel as well as the convenience of charging both remote control and tablet at the same time. The GS RTK app comes preloaded on the tablet and runs right away when you power up. The Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 is extremely responsive with sensitive controls that must be used with care to ensure smooth flight during video recording.
The aircraft will lock on the subject and start tracking it automatically from a safe distance. An integrated spectral sunlight sensor on top of the drone captures solar irradiance, which maximizes accuracy and consistency of data collection through different times of day. When combined with post-processed data, this information helps to obtain the most accurate NDVI results. The P4 Multispectral is a fully integrated multispectral imaging drone designed for precision agriculture and environmental management. The dji fly PRO’s range is greatly extended – it can fly up to 4.3 miles away from the controller,more than twice the range of most other RTF camera drones. The prices of drones at the consumer level have risen in step with the advancements they offer.
In addition to the larger sensor, the camera adds aperture control and a mechanical shutter. Its field of view is slightly narrower than the 20mm lens used by the , but you aren’t stuck shooting at f/2.8 all the time—you can stop down all the way to f/11. This reduces to reach for neutral density filters to balance shutter speed and frame rate to maintain proper shutter angles and exposure.
The Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 will allow anybody to start as a beginner drone enthusiast and graduate as a professional drone operator. The DJI Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 allows you to stay airborne for up to 30 minutes with its Intelligent Flight Batteries. This means that it still offers you one of the best flight times of all DJI drones and means in practice that you have the time to position the drone exactly so to take the shot you had in mind. Or to try and capture complicated video shooting maneuvers again and again until you get it right. The best way to evaluate the price is to consider the average size of your projects and how many man-hours are spent shooting ground control. If you work on sites larger than 20-acres then the time savings from shooting fewer ground control points is very real and can quickly offset the increased cost of the Phantom 4 RTK.
Better manage construction projects by tracking their progress in real-time with accurate and actionable 3D or 2D maps of large sites. Eliminate project waste with full-site awareness using regular, shareable site maps. Track every step of the construction process for years – even across multiple owners.
The P4Pro with KlauPPK is effectively similar but the PPK payload and camera connectivity is external. The P4Pro will connect to your mobile device and a large selection of mission planning and flight apps, from the simplest popular apps to sophisticated systems such as UgCS. On the other hand, the Phantom 4 RTK can get you 0.1’ vertical accuracy with a single ground control point because of the onboard GNSS module and the DJI base station. The Phantom 4 Pro has consumer-grade GPS which is about as accurate as the blue dot on your cell phone (i.e., geolocates photos poorly). So, with the Phantom 4 Pro, you need a lot of ground control in order to anchor and correct the model, otherwise, you can be off by 10′ XY and maybe 50′ vertically. If you are recording a lot of video footage on your Phantom 4 Pro a bottleneck you’ll encounter is backing up your footage to your external hard drive.
In our testing, battery life averaged above 25 minutes, which is equal or better than comparably sized camera drones. The remote control can be charged at the same time as the battery and in our testing lasted through three full flights without a problem. Trying to crash made me physically ill I spent the last few days putting the dji drones through its paces, spending most of my time on the brand new fully autonomous features.