Skydeck enables you to capture and visualize videos of your site. These videos offer a dynamic and real-time perspective of your site activities, providing valuable insights and numerous applications for surveillance, monitoring, and more.

In this section, you will look at:

• Uploading Video Data

• Visualizing Video Data

• Annotating Video Data

• Generating the Video Bookmark Report

Uploading Video Data

1. Select the snapshot where you want to upload the video(s), and click Datasets. The DATASET page is displayed. OR On the DATASET page, select the date of the snapshot from the date dropdown.

2. Select the Videos tab.

If the Videos tab is not displayed, you can add it by clicking the add icon, under the date dropdown.

3. Drag and drop videos here or click Browse Videos to add the video files to the snapshot.

The accepted file formats include MP4 for videos and JSON for telemetry data.

Upload Video

You can also upload video telemetry information (if available) with the video, providing a synchronized view of flight telemetry on the map. Ensure the telemetry file has the same filename as the video.

Video Upload Progress

Once the video upload is complete, it will take a few minutes before the Video is ready for visualization.

Visualizing Video Data

All the video data captured for a site and uploaded to the snapshot is displayed on the site’s video directory page in a card layout. Any live streams done using Skydeck are also automatically uploaded here as a Video.

Video Directory Page

1. Select the snapshot where the video(s) have been uploaded. The video starts playing in the left pane and the map is displayed on the right pane.

Video with Telemetry Map

If the video has a corresponding telemetry file uploaded, the map area will display the location of the UAV as it moves around the area as per the video timestamp.

2. To see other videos uploaded to the snapshot, click Other Videos, above the map area.

3. To view all the annotations (if any) on the video, click the bookmarks icon.

For more information on creating annotations, click here.

Bookmark Icon

The Bookmarks pop-up is displayed.

Bookmarks Pop-Up

Viewing video data along with the telemetry map

Mid-Flight Video with Telemetry Map

• The solid red line depicts the path that the UAV has covered and the dotted red lines show the path to be covered by the UAV.

• The blue arrow on the map shows the direction in which the UAV is flying.

• The yellow highlighted area shows the area that the camera is capturing.

• The top left corner of the map area shows if the drone is:

  • Alt Hold: Drone holds altitude and self-levels the roll and pitch

  • NAV: Drone executes the pre-defined mission

  • Guided: Drone follows instructions from the Ground Control Station

  • Loiter: Drone holds altitude and position

  • RTL: Drone returns to the take-off position

• The refocus icon can be enabled to recenter on the area where the UAV is flying.

• The bottom left of the map area shows the altitude, the latitude, the longitude and the direction in which the UAV is headed. For example, a reading of -14.5° N means that the UAV is flying 14.5° to the left of the North.

Annotating Video Data

1. On the timestamp, where you need to add an annotation, click the add bookmark icon.

2. When the seek bar reaches the timestamp, where you need to add an annotation, click the add bookmark icon.

Add Bookmark

The Create Bookmark pop-up is displayed.

Create Bookmark

3. Enter or select the following details:

Click Create.

Created bookmarks can be identified by the annotation icons on the seek bar of the video player. You can click on these icons to play the video from the annotated frame.

Created Bookmarks

Generating the Video Bookmark Report

You can generate a report on the video bookmarks for a quick analysis/xxx.

1. On the video directory page, click Generate Report.

Generate Bookmark Report

The Generate Bookmark Report pop-up is displayed.

Select Options for Report Generation

1. Select the video for which the report is to be generated.

Only the videos with annotations are enabled for selection.

3. To customize the report content, select from the following options:

   • Order Annotations by severity: Select this checkbox to display the annotations by severity in the report.

   • Filter Annotations by Severity: Select the severity from the dropdown to filter annotations accordingly in the report. For example, if you select Severity 2, only the bookmarks marked with a severity level of 2 will be displayed in the report. You can select multiple options here.

   • Filter Annotations by Type: Select the type of annotation from the dropdown to filter annotations accordingly in the report. For example, if you select Security, only the bookmarks labelled as security will be displayed in the report. You can select multiple options here.

4. Click Download PDF Report. The downloaded report displays information based on the selected filter.

Video Bookmark Report - Severity Overview

Video Bookmark Report - Annotation Severity and Type