200 acres should not take 4 hours. It should be coverable within 20-25 minutes with 75-65 overlap, flying height 120m with something like Mavic 3 getting a GSD of 3.5cm/px. Look at optimizing your flight overlaps and height.
It depends a lot on the terrain type - highly repetitive terrain requires higher overlap. It does sound like they have some broken setting somewhere though.
It's heavily pine forested mountain areas. With a 65-75% overlap, the SFM algorithms struggle to produce sufficient details. Additionally, because of the verticality of the terrain and very tall pine trees there's a need to have multiple angles to generate a good orthophoto. So the grid is denser than other environments for a reason. I'm continuously updating my flight plan based on the results generated -- squeezing density up/down based on observed results.
The 4 hours is an overestimate, it's probably genuinely closer to 3 hours flight time.
lazide|8 months ago
energywut|8 months ago
The 4 hours is an overestimate, it's probably genuinely closer to 3 hours flight time.