Workflow for 6 fields on 1 farm with 3 Weekly Multispectral scans

Agriculture
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Hi,
I’ve got a farm, with six field that I will scan every 3 weeks from now until harvest.
How is best to set this up?

I have a base folder in Windows where I put the first batch of data D:FARM/DATE/FIELD and plan to start a new DATE folder each time I capture to seperate the data. This is on an internal 4GB hard drive. The first capture was 250gig.

Then how about inside Pix4d Fields?
I put the Data Storage on the Hard drive where my data is D:Pix4d Processing

My plan is to setup the farm. Then I made a Project for an RGB of the whole site. Then new project for each field for the first capture.
Do I A: Start a new project for each field every time I capture it, or B: Just have one project per field and import the new data every time?

Finally I upload it all into the cloud so the client can see it.

I welcome suggestions on how best to do this.
I am worried I will run out of space on the Hard Drive though.

Cheers

Chris, Eastwood Drones, UK

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I would do one project per field. The processed data inside PIX4Dfields will be ~30% of the size of the raw data. I would store the raw data on an external drive after you are finished processing them, if you want to keep it.

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Thank you.
And as I do more scans on each field, do I put these back in the same project or start a new project every time?

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I would do it in the same project so you can comapre different datasets with each other.

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Great thank you.
I’ll be sure to start changing the names of the processed files so I can see what date the data was collected

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Good idea, it will also store the aquisition time and flight duration in the info tab:

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