Power/telephone line poles for scale. Credit: Nathaniel Erb-Satullo Erb-Satullo and his colleague acquired a DJI Phantom 4 RTK drone, equipped it with a high-quality camera, and flew it over the area.

The team used a DJI Phantom 4 RTK drone, which provided “relative positional accuracy of under 2cm as well as extremely high-resolution aerial imagery.” “The drone took nearly 11,000 ...

The research team used a DJI Phantom 4 RTK drone which can provide relative positional accuracy of under 2cm as well as extremely high-resolution aerial imagery.

But DJI doesn’t seem to need the Phantom brand anymore. Now, most of its drones are more rectangular packages with fold-down legs for portability, and it has many other brands to carry that ...

Posted: May 16, 2025 | Last updated: May 16, 2025 A showcase of the Freefly Alta camera mounted on an active tracking system, filmed with the Phantom 4 drone to capture dynamic footage.