Drone software. Drone operators. Australia-wide.

Draw the area or lines, and the job goes to an operator in the network near you. Every operator is a pin on the map.

Anywhere in Australia.

Every job from enquiry to invoice, all in one platform. Flight records sync by themselves from the aircraft listed below and from FlightHub 2. Flight tracking, weather and compliance records filed for you in line with CASA Part 101 Manual of Standards. Works with every OctoDrones app, all in one place.

Take the pain out of safety, compliance and paperwork. Get back to flying. Join the operator network.

Jobs

Your own booking website, with enquiries straight into your job list
Work sites drawn on the map, anywhere in Australia
Invoices sent to Xero
Send work when you're flat out, take work when you're quiet. Free.
Map annotations (pins and areas) you mark in Portal go onto the job's map, its CASA flight record PDF and its JSA map

Flying

Radar on every work site: airspace, weather and Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMs)
Watch every job fly live, with its camera and map. Send your customer a link to watch it with you.
Flight records sync by themselves from DJI SmartFarm, FlightHub 2, DJI Docks and Helm
DJI Fly drones too, such as the Mavic, Air and Avata: their records sync through Helm when DJI Fly is on the same Android phone (Android 12 or older)

Records

Pilot logbooks, with hours per pilot and per aircraft
Batteries and maintenance
JSA, checklists and risk assessments
All your records in one download, any time

Anywhere

Works on any phone, tablet or computer, and installs like an app

Compatible drones

Flight records

Matrice 4E / 4T
Matrice 4D / 4TD
Matrice 3D / 3TD
Matrice 400
Matrice 350 RTK and Matrice 300 RTK
Matrice 30 / 30T
Matrice 200 V2, 210 V2 and 210 RTK V2
Matrice 200, 210 and 210 RTK
Matrice 600 and 600 Pro
Matrice 100
Mavic 3E / 3T
Mavic 3M
Mavic 3TA
Mavic 2 Enterprise and Enterprise Dual
Mavic 4 Pro
Mavic 3 Pro
Mavic 3
Mavic 2 Pro and Zoom
Mavic Air 2
Mavic Air
Mavic Pro
Air 3S
Air 3
Air 2S
Mini 5 Pro
Mini 4 Pro
Mini 4K
Mini 3 Pro
Mini 3
Mini 2 SE
Mini 2
Mini SE
Mavic Mini
Avata 2
Avata
DJI FPV
Neo
Flip
Spark
Phantom 4 RTK
Phantom 4 Multispectral
Phantom 4 Pro V2
Phantom 4 Pro
Phantom 4 Advanced
Phantom 4
Phantom 3 Standard, Advanced, Pro, SE and 4K
Inspire 2
Inspire 1, 1 Pro and 1 RAW
Agras T100
Agras T70P
Agras T55
Agras T50
Agras T25P
Agras T25
Agras T40
Agras T30
Agras T20P
Agras T10

Live view through Helm and DJI Pilot 2

Works with both Helm and DJI Pilot 2.

Mavic 3E / 3T
Mavic 3M
Matrice 30 / 30T
Matrice 350 RTK and Matrice 300 RTK
Matrice 4E / 4T
Matrice 4D / 4TD

Live view through DJI Docks and FlightHub 2

DJI Dock 3 with Matrice 4D / 4TD
DJI Dock 2 with Matrice 3D / 3TD
Every aircraft in your DJI FlightHub 2 organisation

Coming soon

Bring in your past records from the app you use now, or from handwritten and printed logbooks and paperwork
Document and PDF editing
Drone and equipment rental
DJI FlyCart flight records synced through DJI DeliveryHub
Tenders: put a job out to every operator in the network and let one accept it
Create and manage your NOTAMs with Airservices, from the job
NAIPS location and area briefings for the job's work site, one click away
BVLOS planning with the SORA safety case built in, step by step
Map annotations (points, lines, polygons) synced both ways between the job map, Portal and Helm

AUD 50 a month + GST, for your whole business

Includes

Unlimited aircraft and users
100 GB of storage
Live streaming: 2 streams at once at full quality, any number of viewers

Extras, + GST

More streams at once: AUD 20 a month each
Extra storage: AUD 25 a month per 500 GB

Our streaming network shares the load between viewers, so we never charge by the viewer or the minute. 30 days free, no card. Your data. Hosted in Australia. Security, always on. Every OctoDrones product is checked by our own security team, which uses AI to probe our software the way an attacker would, and we fix what it finds before it reaches you. We check for new security patches every day and apply them fast.

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Beta

Turn your drone photos and videos into 2D maps, 3D models and Gaussian splats, made on our servers, then plan your flight routes right on them. Works with photos and videos from any drone or camera (photos with GPS land in the right place on the map), and shows what a map costs before it starts.

Fly your DJI Docks from anywhere, on any phone, tablet or computer. Watch the drone live, take over the instant you need to, and land with the map already being made.

Maps

2D photogrammetry (orthomosaic)
Height map (DSM) and ground model (DTM)
3D photogrammetry and point clouds
Gaussian splatting from photos or video
Measure distance and area
Download in standard formats
Share the map with your customer easily

Flight routes

Plan flight routes on your 2D map or 3D model
Or on your Gaussian splat, right where it sits on the map
2D mapping (orthomosaic), 3D photogrammetry (oblique), corridor, orbit, facade and waypoint routes, or bring in DJI route files
Full DJI Agras spray planning: fields, obstacles, no-spray areas, edge margins, spray width, height, speed and route direction
Plan several paddocks at once; each goes to DJI SmartFarm as its own field
Send routes to Helm, DJI Pilot 2 or DJI SmartFarm, or download them

Live

Watch Helm and DJI Pilot 2 aircraft live, with their camera and map
Every dock and drone on one map, with battery, wind and rain

Map layers

Radar's map layers: live satellite refreshed every 10 minutes, live aircraft, animated wind and gusts, rain, snow and thunder, fog, Delta T, density altitude and airspace advisories

Annotations

Pins, lines and areas on your maps
Pins and areas you mark go onto the job's map, its CASA flight record PDF and its JSA map

DJI Docks

Fly a DJI Dock live from any browser, wherever you are
Live video from the drone's camera and the dock's own camera
Spotlight and loudspeaker on the drone
Take over any time, just like DJI: move the sticks on any gaming controller or flight sim controls, keyboard and mouse, or your phone or tablet screen, and the drone is yours
Send any route to a dock, and dock routes can follow the land
Schedule flights and look back at every one
Take-off waits when wind or rain is over your limits
Live photo map that fills in as the drone flies
Maps made by themselves after landing
DJI Dock 3 with Matrice 4D / 4TD
DJI Dock 2 with Matrice 3D / 3TD

Anywhere

Works on any phone, tablet or computer, and installs like an app

Compatible drones

Live view through Helm and DJI Pilot 2

Works with both Helm and DJI Pilot 2.

Mavic 3E / 3T
Mavic 3M
Matrice 30 / 30T
Matrice 350 RTK and Matrice 300 RTK
Matrice 4E / 4T
Matrice 4D / 4TD

Flight routes to Helm and DJI Pilot 2, planned on your 2D map or 3D model

Works with both Helm and DJI Pilot 2.

Mavic 3E / 3T
Mavic 3M
Matrice 30 / 30T
Matrice 350 RTK and Matrice 300 RTK
Matrice 4E / 4T
Matrice 4D / 4TD

Flight routes to DJI SmartFarm, planned on your 2D map or 3D model

T100
T70P
T55
T50
T25P
T25
T40
T30
T20P
T10

Dock flying

DJI Dock 3 with Matrice 4D / 4TD
DJI Dock 2 with Matrice 3D / 3TD

Maps

Photos and videos from any drone or camera

Coming soon

Local processing on your own computer or your own server
LiDAR processing
AI plant analysis from normal or multispectral photos: count every plant or tree, spot stress, weeds or storm damage, then send a spray map straight to your drone
Data merging: photos and maps from several flights, drones and pilots combined into one map, including data synced from DJI Docks and FlightHub 2
AI detection, and DJI Dock 4 with the Matrice 5TD
Missions for every aircraft: Helm and DJI Pilot 2 flights land in Missions with their track, photos and video, the same as dock flights
Start a dock flight from your Mothership job: pick the job and work site, then run its preflight checklist with the Radar check built in; the postflight checklist comes up when the work site's job is complete
The full Mothership job: client, work sites, notes, JSA, documents and map
Custom no-landing zones from a line annotation: set a width, and a road or railway becomes a strip the aircraft may fly over but never land on, as in FlightHub 2
Map layers from KML, KMZ and SHP files, kept as layers or converted to map annotations (points, lines, polygons), coloured by category and labelled
Map annotations in 3D: lines and surfaces with heights, drawn on your 3D models; find any annotation by name or coordinates
Map annotations (points, lines, polygons) synced both ways between Portal, Helm and the Mothership job map, as FlightHub 2's Shared Folder

AUD 150 a month + GST

Includes

5,000 photos and 20 Gaussian splats a month, shared by the whole account
1 TB of storage
Live streaming: 2 streams at once at full quality, any number of viewers

Extras, + GST

With your first DJI Dock: AUD 200 a month in total
Each extra dock: AUD 40 a month, with 250 GB of storage
Extra photos: AUD 15 per 1,000
Extra Gaussian splats: AUD 5 each
More streams at once: AUD 20 a month each; each DJI Dock includes its own
Extra storage: AUD 25 a month per 500 GB

Extra photos and splats are shown before a map starts and only charged when you agree. Pay only for what you use. Our streaming network shares the load between viewers, so we never charge by the viewer or the minute. 30 days free. No card needed to try it; making maps on our servers needs a card and is charged as you go. Beta. In Mothership, or on its own. Your data. Your maps, photos and files are stored in Australia. Security, always on. Every OctoDrones product is checked by our own security team, which uses AI to probe our software the way an attacker would, and we fix what it finds before it reaches you. We check for new security patches every day and apply them fast. Portal showing a 3D photogrammetry model of a farm in hilly country, made from 711 drone photos, tilted on the map beside its outputs and downloads

Portal showing a 3D photogrammetry model of a farm in hilly country, made from 711 drone photos, tilted on the map beside its outputs and downloads

Beta

Free flight app for your DJI controller: fly Portal routes with the controls you know from DJI Pilot 2, and your flight records sync to Mothership by themselves.

Flight records

Once Helm is installed and linked with Mothership, records from every flight on that controller sync automatically, including flights flown in DJI Pilot 2
So you can keep flying in DJI Pilot 2, or use Helm for its full features
DJI Fly drones too, such as the Mavic, Air and Avata: their records sync when DJI Fly is on the same Android phone (Android 12 or older)

Routes

2D mapping (orthomosaic), 3D photogrammetry (oblique), corridor, orbit, facade and waypoint routes from Portal, and DJI route files brought in there
Plan your own routes on the controller

Built in

Radar built in: the full Radar and its live map layers
Mothership on the controller: open your Mothership in one tap when linked
Your Mothership jobs before you fly: pick the job and work site, run the Radar check and Mothership's preflight checklist, and the postflight checklist when you finish at the site

Map layers and Radar

The same map layers as Radar in the maps, switched on or off from the layers popup: live satellite, live aircraft, animated wind and gusts, rain, snow and thunder, fog, Delta T, density altitude and airspace advisories
Full Radar is built in, one tap from the home screen

Compatible drones

Fly with Helm: everything DJI Pilot 2 does, plus Radar built in, routes, and live to Mothership and Portal

Mavic 3E / 3T
Mavic 3M
Matrice 30 / 30T
Matrice 350 RTK and Matrice 300 RTK, with a Zenmuse H20 or H30 series camera
Matrice 4E / 4T
Matrice 4D / 4TD

Flight records only

Matrice 400
Matrice 200 V2, 210 V2 and 210 RTK V2
Matrice 200, 210 and 210 RTK
Matrice 600 and 600 Pro
Matrice 100
Mavic 3TA
Mavic 2 Enterprise and Enterprise Dual
Mavic 4 Pro
Mavic 3 Pro
Mavic 3
Mavic 2 Pro and Zoom
Mavic Air 2
Mavic Air
Mavic Pro
Air 3S
Air 3
Air 2S
Mini 5 Pro
Mini 4 Pro
Mini 4K
Mini 3 Pro
Mini 3
Mini 2 SE
Mini 2
Mini SE
Mavic Mini
Avata 2
Avata
DJI FPV
Neo
Flip
Spark
Phantom 4 RTK
Phantom 4 Multispectral
Phantom 4 Pro V2
Phantom 4 Pro
Phantom 4 Advanced
Phantom 4
Phantom 3 Standard, Advanced, Pro, SE and 4K
Inspire 2
Inspire 1, 1 Pro and 1 RAW

Coming soon: fly older DJI drones with Helm Legacy

Phantom 4 series, Phantom 4 RTK included
Mavic 2 Enterprise and Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual
Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom
Inspire 2
Matrice 200 and 210 series

Controllers

DJI RC Pro / RC Pro Enterprise
DJI RC Plus / RC Plus 2
Android phone with an RC‑N1 / RC‑N2 / RC‑N3

Not the DJI RC or RC 2.

Coming soon

Helm Legacy, a second download for flying older DJI drones with Helm: the Phantom 4 series (Phantom 4 RTK included), Mavic 2 Enterprise and Enterprise Dual, Mavic 2 Pro and Zoom, Inspire 2, and the Matrice 200 and 210 series
Fly your Portal docks from your DJI controller, with its own sticks and buttons
RNG as in DJI Pilot 2: the red cross and a target box with the spot's height above sea level and position, on drones with a laser rangefinder
POI (Point of Interest): orbit a PinPoint live, as in DJI Pilot 2
Move the gimbal camera by dragging on the picture
The Matrice 4 series toolbar, as in DJI Pilot 2
Open DJI route files (KMZ) straight from the controller
Routes with heights above sea level (ASL)
Offline maps
Map annotations (points, lines, polygons) drawn on the controller, synced both ways with Portal as FlightHub 2's Shared Folder
Practice mode: fly routes and controls in DJI's flight simulator, launched from Helm
Cruise: the aircraft holds a set speed, hands off the sticks
Terrain Follow: hold your AGL over terrain, in manual flight and on routes (Real-Time Follow and DSM Follow)
Geo Caging: a geofence of your own area and ceiling the aircraft stays inside
True Altitude (AGL): height above ground on the flight screen from terrain data, alongside height above take-off
AR return-to-home route and landing point drawn on the live camera view
Smart Track: lock onto a person, vehicle or vessel and the aircraft follows it
Smart Detection: people, vehicles and vessels boxed in the live camera view, with alerts on the conditions you set
Live Mission Recording: build a waypoint route by flying it; each photo or C1 press adds a waypoint with its camera settings
Slope, Geometric and Smart 3D Capture routes: photogrammetry of slopes, towers and structures from every side
Photogrammetry quality report after a mapping route, on site before you pack up
RTH battery reserve: set the charge held back for the return flight

Free. Security, always on. Every OctoDrones product is checked by our own security team, which uses AI to probe our software the way an attacker would, and we fix what it finds before it reaches you. We check for new security patches every day and apply them fast. OctoDrones Helm on a DJI controller

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Airspace, weather, NOTAMs, live aircraft. One map, one verdict.

Map layers

Live satellite view of the whole world as it is right now, refreshed every 10 minutes: land, clouds and weather by day, city lights by night
Live aircraft across Australian airspace
Animated wind and wind gusts at your operating height
Rain, snow and thunder
Fog
Delta T and density altitude
Airspace advisories: do-not-fly areas, areas with conditions, fire hazards and powerlines
Controlled, restricted and danger areas, and airport and helicopter landing site zones

The check

One verdict for airspace and weather
Checked against the rules for ReOC, recreational or excluded category flying
Weather now: wind, gusts, temperature, Delta T, humidity, cloud, fog, visibility, pressure, density altitude and rain
Hourly and daily forecast, with any hour shown on the map
Radio frequencies and controlled aerodrome phone numbers
Notices to Air Missions, Meteorological Aerodrome Reports and Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts, decoded or raw
First and last light
Search for any place

Anywhere

Works on any phone, tablet or computer, and installs like an app

Free. No account needed.

Open Radar

Every registered chemical label in Australia, in seconds.

Search

Every product registered with the APVMA
Search by product, registrant, active constituent, host or pest
Show only products with aerial directions, or hide aerial bans
Filter by category, product type, state, poison schedule and formulation

The label checker, built into search

An aerial verdict on every result, read from the label itself: aerial directions, drones named, aerial banned or no mention
The label's own words quoted under each verdict
No more opening every label to find its aerial directions
The label opens in one click

Anywhere