SKY MACHINES
Drone Services as a Business Pt 1
Sky Machines
Post Processing and Analysis – Until you actually perform this step, many don’t realize the size and complexity of this task. Each flight often collects gigabytes of data and it all requires some post processing. Even a simple case like creating a short video and a few still pictures for a real estate sale requires editing down 10-15 minutes of video into a 1-3 minute highlight with lead-ins and post video closes and a little Photoshop work to bring out the best quality of the pictures.
On the other end of the scale, it is easy to collect five or more gigabytes of data in a single flight over a 500 acre farm that requires hours of processing that cannot practically be done on a PC. While there is a growing base of analysis software coming to market, we have very little history and almost no hard data on return on investment (ROI) today. Who is to say that the wonderful Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) analysis helped increase a farmer’s yield by 10% or was it because it rained at the right time? Proving hard cost savings and higher sales is going to take a few more years to validate.