Town of Cochrane Imaged with Spexi

The team is excited to announce that we recently completed Phase 0.1 of our Regional Testnet Rollout which involved flying and imaging the entire town of Cochrane Alberta using the Spexi platform.

For this test, we had a crew of four professional pilots fly using the DJI Mini 2 while using the new Spexi mobile and web apps.

This phase of testing saw the first external drone pilots use the Spexi web and mobile apps to fly and image 320 Spexigons covering the entire town.

At just over 7,000 acres flown, this is the single largest test of the platform to date.

Cochrane was an ideal testing ground for Spexi, due to the relatively low height of the majority of the buildings in the town. It also has a mix of residential, commercial and industrial land and buildings and some variation in terrain.

For this project, we worked with our friends at Osprey Integrity, a professional team of pilots based in Alberta. Their feedback on the imagery collection process, the usability of our web and mobile app and suggestions on features they’d like to see have proved invaluable.

We’re now gearing up for the next phase of testing the Spexi platform, which will involve local pilots of all skill levels flying in parts of the Lower Mainland, British Columbia.

We have several goals for this next phase, including iterating on current versions of our mobile and web app based on pilot feedback, streamlining the pilot onboarding experience, and testing the platform’s ability to ingest imagery at scale.

More details to follow!

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