AirWorks’ Recommended Flight Parameters

The following recommendations are based off of results from real AirWorks' projects. Although different equipment has different standards, we have found these recommendation to provide sufficient quality data in most circumstances. More details can be found in the following pages.

Hardware	Aircraft type: Rotorcraft or Fixed-Wing UAV
Image Settings	Angle: Based on Site Profile GPS Metadata: Enabled Aperture: F/4 to F/5 ISO: Low preferred, between 100 and 200 Shutter Speed: 1/250 to 1/1000
Flight Boundary	100 ft distortion buffer from processing boundary. With LiDAR: Include 1/2 of swath distance.
Weather Conditions	Fly on cloudy days for best results.
Flight Line Overlap	Setting at 80% side overlap and 85% front overlap. With LiDAR: 20% side overlap.
Flight Grid	Depends on the site profile. With LiDAR: 2nd pass perpendicular to 1st pass, turns made out of AOI.
Flight Altitude	150ft With LiDAR: Depends on the number of returns.
Number of Images	Depends on your choice of photogrammetry software, usually no more than 5,000 images.
Ground Control	Based on ASPRS accuracy recommendations. With LiDAR and for photogrammetry: Based on ASPRS recommendations.

Note on manned aircraft data:

The AirWorks application is also suitable for datasets collected with manned aircraft, with some limitations depending on the GSD and altitude of the data collected. To learn more about processing manned aircraft data in the AirWorks app, click here.

In order to maintain the highest standards of accuracy in our deliverables, we request that if you have data that has been collected outside of our recommended parameters, you either collect the data again or speak to someone from our support team before submitting your data to discuss accuracy expectations and what we are able to deliver.

Please contact your account manager for details on data quality and accuracy.