Skip to contentPractice Skydio 2 flight operationsCapture nadir images at altitudes from 25’ to 200’Explore Ground Sample Distance (GSD) & Field of View (FOV)Execute Skydio “Waypoint” and “Keyframe” autonomous skills
Location: 1340 Cherry Ln, West Lafayette, IN 47907 (a.k.a. “Turf Farm”)Operation Zone: East side of the site (see Fig. 2 below)Nearby Hazards:Power lines south along Cherry LaneOther UAS crews operating at 50 ft and 100 ft AGLManned aircraft above 200 ft AGL
Preflight Checks: Software updates, visual airframe inspection, battery health, connectivity.Roles:Nikolai – RPICMason – Visual Observer (VO)Hailey – Notetaker & Crew CoordinatorFlight Setup:No geofence or sensing floor/ceiling applied (not a mapping mission)Manual photo capture at 25’ increments (25–200 ft)Skydio Waypoint flight route created via 2D mapKeyframe flight set manually in 3D and flown autonomously
8 high-resolution nadir images for FOV comparison4 videos (autonomous waypoint & keyframe demonstrations)Full metadata logs for altitude, image resolution, and flight conditionsLAANC documentation and weather observations included
Contributors: Nikolai Auclair (PIC), Mason Cramer (VO), Hailey Manuel (Notetaker)
Flight Date: Tuesday, September 2nd
Flight Time: 15:57 to 16:28
Location: William H. Daniel Turfgrass Research and Diagnostic Center
Airspace: Class D (LAANC Authorization Required)
Mission Objectives:
Study Area
Figure 1
Methods
Data Collection Outcomes
Metric
Value
Time to set up at site
13 minutes
Total flight time
31 minutes
Nadir images captured
8
Videos recorded
4
Dataset size
6.45 GB
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Video Metadata
Video Name
Duration
Size
Waypoints.mp4
30 seconds
55.3 MB
WaypointsClear.mp4
3 mins 38 sec
2.54 GB
Keyframe.mp4
1 minute
108 MB
KeyframeClear.mp4
5 mins 21 sec
3.75 GB
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Image Metadata
Altitude
Filename
File Size
Ground FOV
25 ft
25’.png
7.98 MB
~15 ft (4.5 m)
50 ft
50’.png
7.22 MB
~31 ft (9.5 m)
75 ft
75’.png
6.58 MB
~46 ft (14 m)
100 ft
100’.png
6.27 MB
~62 ft (19 m)
125 ft
125’.png
5.96 MB
~78 ft (23.8 m)
150 ft
150’.png
5.85 MB
~93 ft (28.3 m)
175 ft
175’.png
5.94 MB
~109 ft (33.2 m)
200 ft
200’.png
5.82 MB
~124 ft (37.8 m)
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25 feet
50 feet
75 feet
100 feet
125 feet
150 feet
175 feet
200 feet
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Deliverables
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