The DirtMate that never moves (your base station)

What it actually is

A DirtMate Base Station is a DirtMate unit that doesn’t move. You mount it on something fixed, give it power and a data connection, set the coordinates once, and it runs continuously as your site’s own correction source.

When you fly a drone survey and upload it to Propeller, instead of selecting AeroPoints or Propeller’s correction network as your reference, you select DirtMate Base Station. The correction is already there. Your dataset processes against it automatically.

No pre-flight ground control setup. No post-flight collection. The base is already running.

Why consistency matters more than people think

When you use a different correction source between surveys, or place ground control in slightly different spots each time, you can introduce small differences in your results. Usually small. But over time, or when you’re comparing datasets from different weeks or months, those differences accumulate.

A permanently mounted DirtMate Base Station doesn’t move. The antenna doesn’t shift. The correction source is identical for every survey on that site. That consistency matters when you’re tracking progress, comparing surfaces, or supporting a payment claim with data that needs to line up cleanly.

There’s also a distance factor. Propeller’s correction network is solid, but the nearest reference point could be a long way from your site. A base DirtMate mounted on your site office is right there. Shorter distance, more reliable results.

One thing worth knowing

DirtMate Base Station corrections work within a 20km radius. If you’re running surveys across sites spread further apart than that, you’d need a separate base for each. For most quarry, mine, or civil project contexts, that’s not a constraint you’d run into.

Same correction source. Same reference point. No pre-flight setup required.

It’s the DirtMate that earns its keep without anyone touching it again.