How does AIImageSuites handle drone photos?

Drone JPEGs are imported from the SD card into a named session, sequence-named and tagged. Existing DJI GPS EXIF is preserved; photos without GPS are matched to a DJI .SRT or Airdata/Litchi CSV flight log by capture time, and GPS, altitude and bearing are written into the EXIF GPS fields.

Which flight-log formats are supported?

DJI .SRT subtitle logs (latitude/longitude/rel_alt/yaw lines, including the legacy GPS(lon,lat,alt) format) and CSV exports with latitude, longitude, altitude, heading and time columns, as produced by Airdata and Litchi.

Does AIImageSuites export geospatial data?

Yes. Each session exports GeoJSON and KML (Google Earth) with one point per geotagged photo (filename, sequence, tags, altitude, bearing, segment), the flight path as a line, and the survey boundary polygon with its estimated area. GIS vector overlays and PDF inspection reports are on the roadmap and not yet available.

Can drone photos upload automatically from my PC?

Yes, on Windows 10/11. The Desktop Watcher PowerShell script watches a folder or SD card, waits until each file finishes copying, uploads JPG and DNG files with resumable chunked uploads using a personal revocable upload key, and renames synced files SYNCED_ so they are never uploaded twice.

WORKFLOW · DRONE CAPTURE

DRONE PHOTOS THAT LAND
NAMED, TAGGED AND GEOTAGGED.

Pull the SD card, import into the job's session, drop in the flight log. Every frame leaves with the site name, sequence, tags, GPS, altitude and bearing inside the file — and a GeoJSON sidecar for your GIS.

Start Capturing

THE WORKFLOW

01 · NAME THE JOB
Create a session: site or asset ID, tags like roof / façade / pre-storm.
02 · IMPORT PHOTOS + LOG
Gallery → Import SD / Drone (JPEGs), then Flight Log → Import (.SRT or .CSV).
03 · APPLY
Match by capture time. GPS, altitude and bearing are written into the files; segments appear as filters.
04 · EXPORT
ZIP of renamed, tagged, GPS-baked JPEGs + photos.geojson for QGIS / ArcGIS / Google Earth.

WHAT WORKS TODAY

Import drone JPEGs from the SD card straight into a named session — sequence-named and session-tagged like every other capture
Embedded DJI GPS (lat / lon / altitude / image direction) is read and preserved, not stripped
Flight-log import: DJI .SRT subtitles and Airdata / Litchi CSV exports
Photos without GPS get the nearest flight-log point by capture time (adjustable clock offset + tolerance)
GPS, altitude, bearing and GPS timestamp are written into each JPEG's EXIF GPS IFD
Every photo gets a flight-segment index (split on gaps in the log); the gallery filters by segment
GeoJSON export: one Point per photo (with altitude, bearing, segment) plus the flight path as a LineString, bundled into the ZIP
Windows Desktop Watcher: watches a folder or SD card, uploads JPG / DNG automatically and resumes interrupted uploads; GPS photos go to AERIAL-<date>, others to TABLETOP-<date>
Personal, revocable upload keys and a one-command smoke test (PASS / FAIL in under a minute)
Survey view per session: dark map with flight path and numbered photo pins, survey boundary with estimated acreage, altitude chart (average / max)
KML (Google Earth) and GeoJSON downloads with flight path, photo points and boundary — also included in the ZIP

ROADMAP — NOT YET AVAILABLE

○GIS vector overlays (property lines, inspection zones, custom layers) on the survey map
○One-page PDF client inspection report with map snapshot, acreage and photo grid
○Watcher as a Windows service that starts with the PC, with watcher status in the app
○macOS watcher

Want one of these first? Tell us.

THE BOUNDARY, PLAINLY

A browser cannot fly your drone or read its SD card live. The drone captures; AIImageSuites takes over at import — in the browser, or automatically from a Windows folder with the Desktop Watcher. Acreage is an estimate from the outer boundary of photo locations (not survey-grade), and altitude is shown as recorded by the aircraft, not height above ground. If your drone already writes GPS into every JPEG (DJI does), the flight log is optional — it adds bearing, fills gaps for frames without a fix, and gives you flight segments.

01 · NAME THE JOB

02 · IMPORT PHOTOS + LOG

03 · APPLY

04 · EXPORT