While the thermal version of the Matrice is a much better choice for public safety, the E version is no slouch.
I flew my personal drone along with our Matrice 300 RTK for overwatch of a concert last week and this drone was a valuable asset.
The Matrice:
360 panorama link. Notice how well it did even at night
I flew my personal drone along with our Matrice 300 RTK for overwatch of a concert last week and this drone was a valuable asset.
The Matrice:
- Made a quick situational awareness map in Flight Hub 2 to give an as built background map of the venue
- It made this map in almost realtime and all viewers in Flight Hub 2 could now see the complete venue along with all of our drones and associated live streams
- Had the spotlight and speaker payloads installed and was useful in looking in total darkness
- Had a drop device installed and carried a Restube (Self Inflating rescue tube) - Our concerts are held at the beach right next to the ocean
- Used its Night Scene Mode (Not NIR Light, as it is only for the thermal version) and this worked very well as long as you were not moving
- The zoom is only a notch below the Matrice 300 H20T payload
- The large 4/3 CMOS sensor on this drone is excellent in low light
- Created various panoramas, images and video and the quality of these were far superior to an Matrice 30T and Matrice 300 RTK with H20T payload.
- It failed again when counting a large dense crowd, but always does well with people when they are more spread out
360 panorama link. Notice how well it did even at night