Saturday, February 18, 2017

Fairway Flights at Gainesville Country Club

Flights along two fairways at Gainesville Country Club were performed to record Tee-to-Green video as well as to capture still photographs above each green.  Following the mission, drone flight data (specifically, the latitude and longitude coordinates) were imported into ArcGIS to render a geo-referenced map of the flight paths. 

A key benefit of importing information into ArcGIS is that the flight data can be used to render a graph of the fairway elevation profile.  ArcGIS links U.S. Geological Survey digital elevation data to the flight path latitude and longitude coordinates. The corresponding elevation profiles for each fairway are shown below.


In addition to aerial photos of the 1st and 10th greens, several other photos were taken while on site.  Below is an animated video of the flight along the 10th fairway.