Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI), the Chinese technology company whose name translates to Great Frontier Innovations, has announced the release of its Matrice-30 and Matrice-30T flight platforms. The two drones constitute the company’s M30 series, and provide DJI customers a level of performance and function that falls squarely between that of the highly-portable (read “smaller”) Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced vehicle; and the workhorse, Matrice 300 model.
The M30 integrates a sophisticated camera and multiple sensors into a single platform that runs on upgraded software. A redesigned remote-control serves as the pilot-interface when the drone is not operating autonomously. The model offers users power and endurance enough to undertake demanding missions in harsh flight-environments, while remaining eminently transportable and easy to deploy.
Apart from improved performance and new software, the M30 is capable of undertaking missions beyond the operator’s visual line of sight. Such (BVLOS) capability facilitates improved asset inspection, public safety, search and rescue, and creative endeavors.
For remote and unattended operations, the M30 series integrates with DJI’s FlightHub-2 fleet-management cloud-based software and the DJI Dock.
Both the M30 and M30T feature: a 48 megapixel 1/2” CMOS sensor zoom camera with 5×~16× optical and 200× digital zoom; a 12-megapixel wide-angle camera; 8k photo 4K/30 fps video resolution; and a laser rangefinder that provides precise coordinates of objects up to 1,200 meters away. The M30T—in accordance with its appellation—features an additional 640×512 px radiometric thermal camera.
With its release, the M30 assumes the mantle of DJI flagship. The vehicle’s lightweight design (3.7 kg take-off weight) makes for easy storage, transportation, and deployment. Ease of use is further enhanced by the platform’s self-heating TB30 battery—which supports a minimum of four-hundred charge-cycles and allows for flights of up to 41-minutes. What’s more, DJI’s BS30 charging case replenishes the TB30 battery from 20% to 90% in only thirty-minutes.
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