How do show changes over time using drone photos?

Hello i have now a drone dji mini pro 4 i gone use it for drone mapping restoration of forest. I have a project i can only put one picture. I never done a mapping. So what do you recoment. I how manny timespan i must to see progres. I did never a project so how to start how i can put more pictures. It wood be a upgrade to the website and inatrualist aplacation app if you use drones schooting. What are the possblyties. The dji mini pro 4 makes almost little sound and is small has a camera 4k. Cheak youtube
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I haven’t done a project like this, either, but maybe I can help with some of your questions.
iNat isn’t really set up to categorize just landscape photos, so if you can, it might be good to pick a tree or other large plant recognizable from the ground and pair a photo of what it is doing at ground level with a photo from the drone where you’ve indicated where it is in the shot. Then you can have a specific identified plant for that observation. If you’re just doing aerial landscape photos, you’d have to ID them to a broad level like plant, angiosperm, or dicot, which I don’t think would be as informative.
You can use observation fields like “associated observation” or similar fields to make links between related observations. You can also just paste links to related observations into a comment on the observation or your notes section. Adding your own tags to the observation is another way to make it easy to sort or search.
Finally, you could make a project (traditional is probably easiest) to put all these observations in so it would be easy to find them and sort through them.

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As @m_whitson said, iNat isn’t really set up for that type of activity, it’s more observations of individuals.

That said, @kueda might have some suggestions, if he has time. Back in 2014 after the Morgan Fire on Mt Diablo (Bay Area, Caifornia) he set up a project via the now defunct Nerds for Nature to monitor regrowth of the landscape after the fire.

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The similar work I did that @earthknight mentioned is defunct. Doesn’t even seem like the website is working any more. Picture Post was a similar effort but that also doesn’t seem to exist anymore. If your goal is just to track change by taking a photo of the same subject from the same position at different points in time, you might look into image alignment tools meant for photo stacking. It’s been a while since I’ve really tried to do this so there may be better tools out there.

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Thank you