April’s updates are here—and they’re built to streamline your entire capture to collaborate workflow. From better cut/fill visibility and expanded drone support to new Safety AI dashboards and an improved Minimap experience, DroneDeploy is making it easier than ever to capture, document, and collaborate.
- DJI M4E/T Flight Support - Up to 40% larger maps per battery.
- Travel Altitude - Improve flight safety and reliability.
- Upgraded Cut/Fill Visualisation - Detailed cut/fill views for smarter earthworks.
- DJI Dock 3 Support - Up to 40% larger maps and extreme heat or cold.
- Dock Mission Chaining - Chain together multiple plans.
- Safety AI Embedded Dashboard - Simple, consolidated enterprise dashboard to view all Safety AI project metrics in one location.
- High Performance Minimap - Minimap now reduces latency when switching between main map and minimap and supports field notes and photo direction.
- Add Scale to a Level - Manually set or edit scale to overlays on each level.
- Offline Deliverable Filter by Date or Level - Quickly apply filter to offline deliverable content by level or date for improved offline content.
- BIM Alignment by Level - Calibrate alignment of a BIM to specified Levels or the Exterior.
DroneDeploy Enterprise Platform
- New Project Creation Workflow- Simple, unified, and logical workflow for project creation gets you to reality capture quicker.
For a list of all features launched as part of the April release, check out the release notes.
DroneDeploy Unified Platform
New Project Creation Workflow
We’ve simplified the new project creation workflow by reducing steps, unifying the aerial and ground processes, and requiring project location definition. This enables users to set up projects and begin reality capture more quickly.
Feature Benefits:
- Simplified project setup for quicker project creation and faster time to capture
- Requirement to identify project location will provide a more accurate representation of the project in relation to maps and drawings
DroneDeploy Aerial
DJI M4E/T Flight Support
DroneDeploy now supports the DJI Matrice 4E and 4T, enabling faster site capture across maps, photo, video and pano missions.
Feature Benefits
- Map up to 40% more area per flight with 29% faster mapping and longer battery life
- Improve inspection workflows with better telephoto lenses (7x + 3x) for detailed imaging
- Operate safely around complex infrastructure with enhanced obstacle avoidance
- Ideal for large sites and asset inspections like power lines, substations and data centers
Travel Altitude
Exclusive to DroneDeploy, the new Travel Altitude feature improves flight safety and reliability by automatically adjusting altitude during transit to and from your mapping area.
Feature Benefits:
- Avoid buildings, cranes, and steep terrain by flying at a higher, user-defined travel altitude
- Ensure safer, smoother flights across complex or cluttered job sites
- Maximize mission success rates with automated transitions to optimal mapping height
- Compatible with Dock 1, 2 and 3, Mavic 2 Pro, Mavic 3 Enterprise series, Matrice 300/350 series, Matrice 4 Enterprise series
Upgraded cut/fill visualization
DroneDeploy’s upgraded cut/fill visualization gives you more accurate control over grading by clearly highlighting site elevation differences.
Feature Benefits:
- Adjustable color spectrum and elevation bands offer clearer, more detailed visual feedback
- Easily identify areas needing rework with greater granularity in surface deviations
- Ensure compliance with design specs to reduce rework and disputes
- Produce more accurate, defensible reports for subcontractor validation and progress payments
Dock 3 Support
DroneDeploy now supports DJI Dock 3, delivering faster, more reliable autonomous missions in extreme environments.
Feature Benefits
- Operate in extreme heat or cold with improved insulation and IP56-rated weather protection
- Map 40% more area per flight with 29% faster mapping and longer battery life
- Complete missions faster thanks to 66% quicker ascent and descent
- Ideal for large, complex sites like data centers, energy facilities, and infrastructure projects
Dock Mission Chaining
Unique to DroneDeploy, users can chain together multiple plans so the drone doesn't need to come back to the dock between every objective. For example, a map and 5 panos.
Feature Benefits:
- Chain together map, pano, photo, and video missions—so your drone captures more in one go without returning to the dock.
- Minimize idle time between objectives and keep autonomous misssions running back-to-back for higher site efficiency.
- Plan complex capture routines once and let the drone handle the execution.
DroneDeploy Ground
Safety AI Embedded Dashboard
The new Safety AI-embedded dashboard delivers customizable safety insights, trends, and charts tailored to customer needs. It replaces the emailed enterprise reports, offering a centralized, easy-to-access view of safety risks across all projects.
Feature Benefits:
- Customize on-site and enterprise training programs for the most beneficial targeted results
- Identify projects with higher risk rates which can lead to increased EMR and implement corrective action before it's too late
- Identify the best performing projects for national or regional recognition
- Monitor project safety performance without the burden of costly, time consuming travel
High Performance Minimap
As a result of our move to Mapbox for our map renderings, this new high-performance minimap reduces latency when switching from main map to minimap improving the efficiency of users. In addition, the minimap now supports photo direction and field notes.
Feature Benefits:
- Minimap box now supports the inclusion of field notes and media groups to simplify navigation and visual context
- Improved performance with less latency and quicker rendering when switching between main map and minimap
Add Scale to a Level
Users can now manually set or edit the scale of overlays at each level. This new capability resolves issues such as BIM incompatibility in migrated projects, overly dense or sparse walk nodes, and inconsistent media group placement across levels.
Feature Benefits:
- Applying or editing scale improves walk marker visibility during walks
- Improved measurement capability when scale has been applied
Offline Deliverable Filter by Date or Level
Offline deliverables can now be filtered by date or level. This gives more flexibility to define the output of an offline deliverable by project level and not just by date. Upon completion of an offline deliverable filter, users will also be given a file size estimate to prevent oversize exports and failures.
Feature Benefits:
- Additional capability to filter by level offers another filtering means for projects that need to be shared by level rather than date
- Better management of offline file size to minimize export failures
- File size notification helps users properly filter offline deliverables and avoid disruption when exporting
BIM Alignment by Level
When aligning a BIM model to a project, users can now calibrate that alignment for specific Levels or the Exterior. This new capability addresses a key challenge in using BIM Compare on Ground-only projects (especially StructionSite migrated projects) where Levels are not necessarily aligned to one another.
Feature Benefits:
- BIM alignment by level resolves issues such as BIM incompatibility in migrated projects
- Aligned BIM by level will help reduce overly dense or sparse walk nodes
- Aligning BIM by level limits inconsistent media group placement across levels
Want to see these new updates in action? Get in touch with our team!
