Drone Operation and Photogrammetry

Pairs of students were asked to perform a site survey of a portion of Milton Airfield utilizing a drone and photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is the art, science, and technology of obtaining reliable information about physical objects and the environment through processes of recording, measuring, and interpreting photographic images. The operation of a drone was required to capture the photographic data to be fed into Autodesk ReCap Photo (or similar software) for constructing the following through photogrammetry: 1) an orthographic image 2) a 3d model that will be subsequently brought into hino for basic analytical operations (contours, sections, dimensions, etc) 3) curating any features, elements, or phenomena of interest through simple photography, leveraging the point of view and accessibility of drone operation.