Multi-flight import
Surveys that span several take-offs — a battery swap, a paused mission — used to require collecting every folder by hand. Now it is enough to select a single folder during image import: DroneField finds the flights that belong together and offers to merge them.
How detection works
Section titled “How detection works”Two conditions must both hold for a neighbouring flight to be grouped in:
- Temporal proximity — the pause between the flights is at most 1 hour (overlapping flights, e.g. two drones at once, count as no pause), and
- Contiguous area — the covered areas connect. A separate field a few hundred metres away is not pulled in, even if it was flown minutes later.
If a flight’s time cannot be read, the time condition is skipped and the contiguous area alone decides — the flight is offered, and you can untick it.
The confirmation list
Section titled “The confirmation list”Before anything is imported, DroneField shows the detected group:
- the group members are pre-ticked, each with the reason it was included (time gap + distance);
- excluded neighbours are listed too — one click adds them if the detection was too cautious;
- the map preview draws a separate flight path per take-off, with S / F markers (start / finish) so you can verify each leg.
Untick anything that does not belong, then start the import as usual.
Single flights and manual selection
Section titled “Single flights and manual selection”- With a single take-off in the folder, the panel appears in the familiar, simple form — no group list.
- Cmd-click still works in the folder picker if you prefer to select multiple folders by hand.