[Qgis-user] Drones in forestry

[Piotr Kania]

Hi!

I'm sorry if my question is out of the main topics - my current employer 
would like to buy drone. They would like to use it for "registration" 
such things as (for example) - small areas without trees in dense 
forest, that were cut (it's not a national park, but normal typical 
forest -> so here we have timber harvest etc.); here is link to Google 
Maps, that shows what I mean -

https://goo.gl/maps/iEPchbrTYyQ2

Normally I (or someone else) must walk with gps receiver, then digitize 
that "holes" in qgis. The idea is to use drone for that - and here is my 
question - what would you recommend? - I know the max. acceptable price 
is about 2300 usd, but it's better to assume 1200 usd. I think my 
employer would be already happy if such "drone" just make aerial photos 
that can be used for mapping, I don't think that my company would like 
to have some 3d data (DEM, DSM).

Thanks for any hints