What Is Geoid Undulation and Why Does Your Drone Altitude Depend on It?

Your drone records altitude relative to the WGS84 ellipsoid. Google Earth displays terrain relative to the geoid. That gap — called geoid undulation — is why camera icons sometimes appear underground in Google Earth, and why FlightDeck's Geoid Calculator exists.
June 30, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

Using 5-Day Forecasts to Schedule Multi-Day Drone Campaigns

Scheduling a multi-day UAS campaign around weather is a resource allocation problem as much as a forecasting one. FlightDeck puts a 5-day weather picture across every remaining site in your project so you can sequence the work around actual conditions.
June 26, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

Managing a 200-Site UAS Project Without Losing Your Mind

A 200-site tower inspection project involves roughly 200 individual planning decisions, 200 sets of data files, and a progress-tracking problem that spreadsheets alone don't solve well. Here's how FlightDeck's workflow handles it.
June 19, 2026 — Jeremy Yates