Drone adalah pesawat tanpa awak yang dikendalikan dari jarak jauh. Pesawat tanpa awak atau Pesawat nirawak (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle atau UAV), adalah sebuah mesin terbang yang berfungsi dengan kendali jarak jauh oleh pilot atau mampu mengendalikan dirinya sendiri, menggunakan hukum aerodinamika untuk mengangkat dirinya, bisa digunakan kembali dan mampu membawa muatan baik senjata maupun muatan lainnya. Perkembangan teknologi membuat drone juga mulai banyak diterapkan untuk kebutuhan sipil, terutama di bidang bisnis, industri dan logistik. Dunia industri bisnis, drone telah diterapkan dalam berbagai layanan seperti pengawasan Infrastruktur, pengiriman paket barang, pemadam kebakaran hutan, eksplorasi bahan tambang, pemetaan daerah pertanian, dan pemetaan daerah industri. Berdasarkan jenisnya, terdapat dua jenis drone, yaitu multicopter dan fixed wing. Fixed wing memiliki bentuk seperti pesawat terbang biasa yang dilengkapi sistem sayap. Tipe fixed-wing memerlukan desain aerodinamika pada sayap dan badannya sehingga perancangannya cukup rumit. Multicopter yaitu jenis drone yang memanfaatkan putaran baling-baling untuk terbang. Drone Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Kedirgantaraan (STTKD) memiliki jenis multicopter, dan sudah dipergunakan untuk pemetaan di wilayah Kulonprogo terletak di Desa Glagah Temon dekat runway calon bandara dengan waktu operasional Drone STTKD kurang lebih 20 menit dan beban yang dapat diangkat 1 kg.

The higher the quality of the drone, the longer the drone will fly and the better the quality of the drone's photography. Survey of research location in Glagah Indah Beach, preparation of drone at ground, we plan the height of flying drones, then testing drone at ground, we measure camera calibration, and then result capture in the air and images in the air. Vehicle specifications are as follows:

Dunia fotografi sangat erat berkaitan dengan pesawat tanpa awat disebut drone. Drone dipasang kamera sehingga pesawat tersebut dikendalikan pilot dari daratan. Hasil fotografi dilihat pilot setelah pesawat drone tersebut mendarat. Drone adalah pesawat tanpa awak yang dikendalikan dari jarak jauh. Pesawat tanpa awak atau pesawat nirawak (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle atau UAV) adalah sebuah mesin terbang yang berfungsi dengan kendali jarak jauh oleh pilot. Perkembangan teknologi membuat drone juga mulai banyak diterapkan untuk kebutuhan sipil, terutama di bidang bisnis, industri, dan logistik. Dalam dunia industri bisnis, drone telah diterapkan dalam berbagai layanan seperti pengawasan infrastruktur, pengiriman paket barang, pemadam kebakaran hutan, eksplorasi bahan tambang, pemetaaan daerah pertanian, dan pemetaan daerah industri. Berdasarkan jenisnya, terdapat dua jenis drone, yaitu multicopter dan fixed wing. Multicopter adalah jenis drone yang memanfaatkan putaran baling-baling untuk terbang, sedangkan fixed wing memiliki bentuk seperti pesawat terbang biasa yang dilengkapi sistem sayap. Langkah yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah persiapan pembuatan drone, perencanaan ketinggian terbang, pengujian drone di ground, pengaturankalibrasi kamera, pengambilan foto udara, melihat hasil foto udara, kemudian menganalisis hasil foto udara. Drone dalam penelitian ini memiliki empat propeller, yang digunakan untuk pemetaan jalur selatan menuju pintu masuk New International Yogyakarta Airports melalui Desa Plumbon, Kecamatan Temon, Kabupaten Kulonprogo. AbstractRole Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Type MultiCopter in Improving the Quality of Aerial Photography Field in the Southern Path towards the Prospective New Airport in Kulonprogo. The world of photography is very closely related to the unattended aircraft called drones. Drones are mounted with camera so that the plane is pilot-controlled from the mainland. Photography results are seen by the pilot after the drone aircraft is landed. Drones are unmanned aircraft controlled remotely. Unmanned aircraft or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), is a flying machine which is operated with remote control by the pilot. Technological developments make the drones also start widely applied to civilian needs, especially in the areas of business, industry and logistics. In business industry, drones have been applied in various services such as infrastructure monitoring, freight forwarding, forest fire-fighter, mining exploration, agricultural mapping, and industrial area mapping. Based on its type, there are two types of drones, namely multicopter and fixed wing. Multicopter is the type of drone that utilizes the spin of the propeller, while the fixed wing has an airplane-like shape with a wing system. The steps used in this study were as follows: drone making preparation, fly height planning, ground drone testing, camera calibration settings, air photo capture, air results viewing, and aerial photographs results analyzing. Drone used in this study has fourpropellers used for mapping south path entrance of New Yogyakarta International Airport through Plumbon Village,Temon sub-district, Kulonprogo regency.

This research use multicopter drone. This mapping was carried out at the entrance area of the prospective new airport precisely at the Congot beach area, Temon district, Kulonprogo district with a multicopter drone. This drone is capable of recording an altitude of 100 meters above ground level and can photograph an area of 1.5 km. This study used a drone type multicopter The vehicle specifications are as follows: Frame: F450; Flight Controller: DJI Naza M-Lite; Propeller: 1045 Prop; motorbike: brushless sunnsky 980 kVa; ESC: Skywalker 40 Ampere 3s; Battery: Ace 3s Gens 5000mAH; Remote: Turnigy 9XR with Frsky Tanseiver; and camera: Xiaomi Yi 4k International edition. The height of a multicopter drone reaches 30 meters, can take an area of up to 1 km and a flight time of 15 minutes. The advantage of this multicopter is that it uses a DJ I Phantom camera classified as stable for the light weight drone class. So for terrain with high wind speed, this multicopter drone is still able to maintain its position in the air. The Kulonprogo Regional Government and the Congot Radar Unit really appreciate this mapping because it is very helpful in mapping the entrance of new prospective airports in Kulonprogo.

In the world of photography is very closely related to the unmanned aerial vehicle called drones. Drones mounted camera so that the plane is pilot controlled from the mainland. Photography results were seen by the pilot after the drone aircraft landed. Drones are unmanned drones that are controlled remotely. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), is a flying machine that operates with remote control by the pilot. Methode for this research are preparation assembly of drone, planning altitude flying, testing on ground, camera of calibration, air capture, result of aerial photos and analysis of result aerial photos. There are two types of drones, multicopter and fixed wing. Fixed wing  has an airplane like shape with a wing system. Fixed wing use bettery 4000 mAh . Fixed wing drone in this research used   mapping in  This drone has a load ability of 1 kg and operational time is used approximately 30 minutes for an areas 20 to 50 hectares with a height of 100 m  to 200 m and payload 1 kg  above ground level. The aerial photographs in Kotabaru produce excellent aerial photographs that can help mapping the local government in the Kotabaru region.