Enterprise workflows for consumer DJI™ drones

A photo triggers at each waypoint coordinate. The drone can decelerate before each shot for precise timing — ideal in variable wind or at lower cruise speeds.

Continuous timed shooting while the drone flies at cruise speed. The planner calculates the speed vs shutter interval ratio from your target front overlap — generally faster but less precise.

Select from 4 bidirectional axis pairs (like N/S or E/W) and generate an all-in-one lawnmower grid that captures opposite headings in a single battery-efficient flight. The planner automatically extends the lines beyond your drawn perimeter ensuring the vertical edges of your asset get perfect overlap.

Choose from 8 distinct, absolute cardinal directions. The planner generates a continuous timed-shooting mission where the drone flies the grid layout with its heading locked strictly toward your target direction. Select multiple angles to stitch them together into a seamless flight plan.

Draw a polyline along your subject and set a corridor width — the planner lays parallel passes that follow every bend, covering the full width with your chosen side overlap. Leave the width at zero to fly a single line straight down the route, with terrain follow the whole way.

Inspecting a power line or elevated pipeline? Set the subject height and the drone follows the subject itself at a constant clearance, keeping the sampling distance on the subject — not just the ground — consistent end to end. Individual vertices can be raised further for sagging or stepped runs.

Drop a centre pin and define height layers — each with its own radius, tapering for narrowing structures like towers and turbines. Fly them as individual circles, or as one continuous corkscrew spiral that climbs smoothly from layer to layer. Bottom-up or top-down, your call.

Tell the planner where the subject starts and ends, and the gimbal aims at it the whole way round — tilting up at the base from below, looking straight on alongside it, and down at the top from above. Terrain follow keeps every circle at a safe height over sloping ground.

Trace the wall and set a standoff distance (or target GSD) — the planner generates columns of camera stations up and down every surface, with your chosen front and side overlap, automatic corner reconstruction shots, and Intelligent Obliques: each point on the wall can be photographed from up to 8 angled directions plus straight-on, giving reconstruction software the tie points it needs for crisp, complete 3D geometry.

Every flight leg between camera stations is validated against the structure and terrain. Legs that would cut through a wall, graze a corner or dip below the safety floor are automatically repaired with detour waypoints that route around the geometry — or, when you allow it, over the façade with your chosen clearance — honouring your wall clearance and minimum height to ground. Steep terrain is treated as an obstacle too. Verify the whole route in the interactive 3D preview before you fly.

Upload a georeferenced 3D mesh (OBJ / GLB) of the structure and its surrounding terrain — from a quick oblique first pass processed in WebODM, or a model you already have — and draw your area of interest directly on the mesh. No guessing from a top-down map: you mark the actual surfaces you want photographed.

One click and you get the finished, flyable route: loops that wrap around the structure at your standoff distance, with Intelligent Obliques angling extra shots at the surface for a complete reconstruction — the way a Matrice 4E flies Smart 3D Capture. Every leg is planned against the mesh itself, so the path clears the geometry from the start.