{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Drone Network","title":"What Your Drone Actually Sees","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":704,"description":"A roofing contractor has beautiful drone footage of a commercial building. They try to measure the damaged section. They get the wrong answer — wrong enough to misprice the job. The problem wasn't the drone, the pilot, or the camera. It was a fundamental property of photographs that most people never think about.This episode of The Drone Network demystifies what actually happens between the moment a drone pilot closes a mission and the moment someone uses that data to make a decision. That means covering perspective projection, photogrammetry, Structure from Motion, orthomosaics, and ground sample distance — and explaining why a standardized mapping mission produces infrastructure, not photography. If you've ever wondered why mission parameters matter, why overlap ratios aren't arbitrary, or why drone-derived imagery beats satellite at the detail level that actually matters for decisions on the ground — this episode is for you.The Drone Network is sponsored by Spexi Geospatial and LayerDrone. Learn more at spexi.com and layerdrone.org. New episodes every week — subscribe and leave a five-star review wherever you listen.Sources: propelleraero.com, future3d.com, skybrowse.com, commercialdroneguide.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/yObPLmrJmSHAC2QJy1QXNq9_9BXFoMkZPA7mO_HapKE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYThj/MGQ4ZGU1NDgwZWJm/Y2YyZTllNmNiNjli/NjdkYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}