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Map created with DroneDeploy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year was the most significant year for commercial drones yet. More than 66,000 remote drone pilots were certified by the FAA in 2017 in the U.S. alone. Drones made their way into a diverse range of industries, from archaeology to construction, insurance to agriculture. Of course, millions of dollars have been invested in drone services, but Goldman Sachs estimates that the commercial drone market industry will surpass $20 billion by 2021.<\/p>\n

One of the hottest drone products of the moment is the mapping service. DroneDeploy, a company founded in 2013, recently launched Live Map\u2014the world\u2019s first software able to generate drone maps in real time.<\/p>\n

Usually, creating a drone map takes time\u2014first you have to plan a mission, fly, capture imagery, go back to your desk to upload the data on your computer (it must be a suitably powerful computer) and then play the waiting game. For hours.<\/p>\n

With the new service, those hours of waiting disappear\u2014even without a laptop or even internet connection, you get the data you need immediately. The steps are simple: plan a flight, take off, look at maps render on-screen during flight. That\u2019s it. Hundreds of acres of land can easily become consumable maps, shareable to collaborators via instant cloud-syncing across devices. Thus, if more in-depth analysis is required, users can also create higher-resolution 2D maps from the same flight data.<\/p>\n

Live Map is the next-generation product of Fieldscanner, but it\u2019s five times faster, which makes it capable of keeping up with the real-time challenges of the real world. \u201cHours of waiting for crop imagery are over. We can capture real-time data in seconds without an internet connection, and begin making smarter crop management decisions before the drone hits the ground,\u201d says Justin Metz, technology integration specialist at Bowles Farms.<\/p>\n

The leap was possible thanks to the advancement of technology: newer drones and mobile devices with robust communication links, precise GPS and improved computing capacity. And nowadays, the drone\u2019s all-seeing eyes can help with monitoring tasks more easily and accurately.<\/p>\n

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DroneDeploy\u2019s Live Map can really add a helping hand here\u2014drone maps not only provide an aerial view of the project, but since each map includes a rich set of data, it can be used to measure and analyze pretty much anything on site:<\/p>\n