The Mapping Flight

Understanding the raw material Before you start stitching images together, you need good raw imagery. A raw drone photo is the unprocessed file straight from the camera sensor. It holds more data than a compressed JPEG, especially in shadows and highlights. This extra data matters when you later align and blend dozens or hundreds of images into a single orthomosaic. Raw files are large. A typical flight over a 10-hectare field might produce 200 to 400 images, each around 2