Capstone: The Aerial Survey Report

🎒 What you need

• your mission plan from module 6 and checklist from module 5
• the shared phone and a raised camera position: a long pole, a safe roof with an adult, or a kite or balloon if you have one
• card, tape and pen for the report, and permission from whoever controls the site

✋ Do this

1. Get permission first, in the words you drafted in module 5, from whoever actually controls the site. No permission, no survey — this is the part professionals never skip.
2. Execute your plan: fixed height, straight lines, consistent overlap, photos pointing straight down. If conditions change halfway — light, wind, dust — note it, because it will show in your images.
3. Stitch your images into one map. Free stitching software or careful manual overlapping on card both work; state honestly which you used.
4. Analyse the map for findings a person could act on: where water pools, which section of a plot is thinner, where a path has worn through, how much unused ground there is. Aim for three findings, each with an arrow and a sentence.
5. Quantify at least one finding. Use a known object in frame — a doorway, a step length, a jerry can — as a scale reference, and estimate an area or a distance. State your uncertainty; a range is more honest than a single number.
6. Assemble the report: site and permission, method with height and overlap, the map, three findings, limitations, and your signed safety checklist. Photograph it. Then present it to the person who controls the site and write down their response on the back.

💡 Why it works

🔥 Challenge

📖 New words