SkyDeck is thrilled to announce a major update packed with exciting features designed to streamline your workflow, enhance data analysis, and empower smarter decision-making. Let's dive into the details.

Enhanced User Experience:

Fleets module

• Teams can now be assigned to project milestones, bringing greater clarity to project ownership and progress tracking.

• Pilots can now efficiently manage their schedules with the addition of a resource calendar, enhancing organization and productivity

• Pilots, Drones, and Payloads can securely store vital documents with the newly added document vault, ensuring easy access and management

Missions Module:

Management:

• Users can delete draft missions, keeping their workspace organized and efficient.

• Mission Manager will now be able to filter missions by assigned pilot, providing enhanced oversight and efficiency.

• User can extend ongoing missions by adjusting end times, ensuring adaptability to changing circumstances.

• The Missions page is enabled to capture flight-wise status and success/failure attempts, providing detailed insights for better tracking.

Planning:

• Flight parameters are now validated against the capabilities of the selected drone, ensuring safer operations

• Users can define common Home and Goal locations for flights, streamlining the mission setup process

• Added validation ensures flights are planned within the designated site boundary, ensuring regulatory adherence

Streamlined Data Workflow:

Direct Raw Data Upload

• Easily upload raw data to snapshots for instant 2D and 3D model creation, streamlining your workflow

• SkyDeck now supports uploading RGB and multispectral raw data, empowering you with broader analysis capabilities

• Users now have the option to auto-delete raw data 72 hours post-successful model generation, ensuring efficient storage management

Cloud Stitching

• User can now generate wide range of 3D models, including textured mesh, point cloud, and classified point cloud, enhancing data visualization capabilities

• Photogrammetry default parameters are enabled to automatically optimize for efficient processing based on selected outputs and image count

• Users can track stitching progress more effectively with detailed reporting and estimated completion times, enabling improved planning

• Experience streamlined troubleshooting for stitching tasks with enhanced error reporting, including detailed logs and failure stage identification

3D Visualization Overhaul

• Experience an intuitive and immersive journey with the completely redesigned 3D environment, enhancing overall user experience

• With 3D data tiling, users can now visualize large 3D datasets and optimize viewing on web browsers

• Users can now upload multiple 3D mesh and point cloud models to a single snapshot, enhancing comprehensive data analysis

Pipeline Encroachment Insight

• With ML-powered insights, users can now automatically identify objects of interest in the pipeline right-of-use (ROU), enabling proactive maintenance and risk mitigation

Additional Enhancements

• Experience more granular site management as users can now create sites by demarcating a line string or point with buffer

• With the new in-app viewer, conveniently access PDFs, images, and text files from the document vault

• Unleash deeper data insights with richer customization for overlays & annotations (fill, outline, icons)

• User profiles now showcase "Places you work in," highlighting affiliations and partnerships

Partnership Enhancements

• Partner tags now display shared users and resources, enhancing transparency in active partnerships

• Partners gain control with the option to pause inventory sharing in active collaborations.

Improvements:

We've implemented numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements for a smoother and more efficient user experience.

• Improved performance for raw image upload and thumbnail generation processes.

• Resolved an issue where users were unable to change file names in the datasets page.

• Notifications are now triggered correctly for all photogrammetry tasks.

• Fixed RBAC issue where Site Manager couldn't access photogrammetry features.

• Addressed a camera accuracy parameter issue in cloud stitching.

• COG conversion for stitched data is now part of the stitching process.

• User customization preferences for overlays now persist across sessions.

• Fixed an issue with report descriptions not working for Stitching quality reports.

• Resolved an issue with advanced parameter templates for cloud stitching.

• Implemented notification alerts for all Insights for improved awareness.

• Fixed an issue where certain telecom models weren't visualized.

• Data extent files are no longer visible in the datasets page for a cleaner interface.

• Overlay visualization rules now support string operations for greater flexibility.

• Added a "Hide/Unhide all" option

Stay tuned! We're continuously innovating to bring you the best possible tools for your aerial operations.