Surveying with a drone

In Chapter 3, Preparing Your Drone for Flying, we have built a DIY drone using ArduPilot. We will first set up our existing drone for doing surveys. We do not need to change any kind of hardware in that system:

1. Open the Mission Planner software and go to the Config/Tuning page of Mission Planner and select Planner. You will see the following page:

2. Now, choose a suitable unit for the distance and the speed of the copter, because these are vitally important to send a drone somewhere precisely.

3. From the top-left corner of the Mission Planner, select Flight Plan, and you will see the following screen:

This is just a map, and you can see a green pointer which says Home/H when the mouse is hovered over it. We can click and move the pointer anywhere we want.

4. We first place the pointer from where we will depart the drone to our destination:

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