Find UAV Beta

Find where a drone flew from its own video. Upload the video, mark roughly where the flight was, and get the track on a satellite map — from the pictures alone, no GPS needed.

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How it works

  1. 1Upload the drone's video. Any length; it goes straight to cloud storage.
  2. 2Mark the search area — a point on the map and a radius (up to 20 km).
  3. 3Get the track. The service matches the video against satellite imagery and shows the estimated flight path, the last position and its accuracy; export it as GPX, KML or CSV. Every analysis stays in your history.

Takes day colour video from a downward (nadir) camera, such as the video from a StabX flight record, or from FPV goggles (beta). Thermal video is not supported yet. Results are estimates, not a navigation or safety system.

What it is for

  • Your own drone. See where it flew and the last point before the video ended — where to start looking for it.
  • Intercepted video. Intercepted the video feed of another drone? Find where it flew.

Live and API

  • Live. Stream the drone's camera while it flies; the track updates as it goes, over WebSocket or WebRTC.
  • API. Run Find UAV from your own software with an API key from your account: uploads and results over REST. Analyses through the API use the same credits.

Credits

Analyses are paid in credits. The price is shown before you start: 1 credit per 10 km² of search area + 1 credit per 2 minutes of video; the Fast lane costs ×3. For example, a 10-minute video in a 3 km circle costs 8 credits.

  • Every account gets 100 free credits each month.
  • If an analysis fails or the flight cannot be found in the area, its credits are returned automatically.
  • Buying credits is not open yet. It opens once enough people tell us Find UAV works for them.
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