When taking aerial photographs by using a drone, we are faced with restrictions that are associated with such manner of flying. The camera, which is typically installed into the airframe, through the opening in the “belly” of the airplane, is taking photographs vertically downwards. By using this method, the camera cannot make panoramic aerial photographs, i.e. photographs of landscape at an angled perspective, which allows for easier presentation of vertical structures, their positions and their mutual relations.

Geavis drone SenseFly eBee is equipped with a special feature that allows taking photographs at an angle from 0° to 50° deviation from the vertical. When creating a flight plane, the drone operator selects a target point on the ground, image resolution on this point and the direction of the shooting. The flight planning program then calculates the course of the manoeuvre, during which the drone briefly flies into a controlled steep dive and take photographs in such position. The view of the camera to the ground is then no longer vertically downwards, but tilted at the desired deviation from the vertical.