Flight planning is the process of completing preflight preparations before a drone takes off. This planning includes route, altitude, battery, weather, and flying restrictions. Flight planning is essential to ensure safety, efficiency, and mission success. It helps identify and avoid potential hazards, optimizes the flight route, and achieves mission objectives. For a beginner flight planning tutorial on capturing high-quality imagery see Get started with ArcGIS Flight.
To plan and prepare a flight in ArcGIS Flight do the following:
- Create a project.
- Choose a flight mode for the type of area or structure that you intend to map or model. For more information, see Understand flight modes.
- Create and fly a mission to perform or collect data.
- Prepare imagery for upload.