How to Inspect a Solar Farm with a Drone - DJI Matrice XT2 

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In this video we will be explaining step by step how to inspect a solar farm using a drone. We will start off by showing you how we first perform a physical walk through of each site looking for potential hazards and obstructions to the flight. We then examine the equipment for this particular inspection, and then we go through the best practices for solar drone inspections like obstructions to your flight, landing pads, and how to use a solar irradiance meter.
Next we touch on the importance of understanding all the aspects of weather and how it impacts your solar inspection. Everything from moisture, humidity, snow, and wind are addressed and then we begin our flight planning.
For this inspection we are using DJI GS Pro for flight planning and we will talk you through how to set up a flight plan, create the flight points, add the camera settings and pitch, the proper settings for the speed and altitude, and any “end of mission” actions we want to perform.
Once the flight plan is set up we move into the thermography setup using DJI XT Pro. We will explain why we use each of the settings such as Radiometric JPEGs for taking images and the importance of keeping the applications running during the flight.
Once the checklists are complete we take to the sky and fly the autonomous solar inspection flight. The entire flight today took just over 11 minutes to complete. Once the inspection is done we will take the drone back over the solar farm to show you what the anomalies look like on our thermal screen and explain the difference between the anomalies we found during the flight.
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►Chapters
Intro 0:00
Drones & Cameras 0:29
Inspection Best Practices 1:04
Weather Factors 2:33
Flight Planning 5:48
Drone Solar Farm Inspection 17:35
Manual Site Flyover 22:54
Outro 24:49

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