Flight Guidelines for C&I Solar Rooftop Planning
Rooftop modeling requires two flights: a mapping flight and 1-2 orbital flights.
The two types of flights are as follows:
Obstruction Heights Rooftop Modeling Flight
Equipment
Drone: Capture images with a multi-copter UAS with gimbal mounted camera. A DJI Phantom 4 Pro is the preferred drone for this purpose.
High-resolution camera: 5472×3648 pixel (20 MP) resolution minimum as provided by, for example, the Phantom 4 Pro or Zenmuse X4S cameras.
File format
Images must be JPEG and contain metadata (GPS location, relative altitude, gimbal pitch, gimbal yaw, gimbal roll and timestamp).