Field Note
Aerial footage is easy to admire and surprisingly easy to lose inside unnamed folders. The business value begins when every mission has a purpose, repeatable capture plan, known accuracy, consistent storage path, and a person who knows what decision the output supports.
Progress documentation needs comparable views and dates. Quantity work needs appropriate overlap, positioning, processing, and validation. Inspection needs enough detail and context to show where the observation belongs. Each is a different deliverable even if the same aircraft can collect all three.
Build the information chain before buying around headline range or sensor size: authorization, mission, capture, transfer, processing, quality check, retention, access, and delivery. The best platform is the one the team can operate safely and repeatably without turning each flight into a custom software project.