PREAMBLE

Are you a lover of good aerial photography as a crypto lover? Do you sometimes marvel at the rate which beautiful aerial views of structures are gotten? Soar is coming out with a nice crypto package for all drone photographic creators. A Drone in this context is a flying camera device, that can be utilized to take shots of environment, or structure and infrastructures as well. The Soar world is all for developing a thriving transacting source for all ingenious drone sourced contents that flood the world of photography. The Soar platform is aided by the structured pattern of a decentralized blockchain that has been the rave of the digital economy.

The Soar Methodology

The Soar network helps in unlocking and unraveling previously ignored value or quality of drone contents by placing an opportunity for drone users to monetize their unique products.
Like I mentioned earlier, Soar involves a decentralized system of structured valuation of quality drone contents from specific photo artists. Most often than not, good drone image artists take good shots using their drone technology high speed cameras but when it comes to getting effective rewards, they often fall shot of being rewarded accordingly due to the demeaning menace of photographic piracy that is still plaguing the drone image market. This makes patenting of an image by genuine artists to ne hard to achieve without a long verification process.

With the aid of Soar technologies, drone contents can now be automatically and instantly dated in real time as the shots are being made. The effective records are stored securely on the blockchain and with its added distributed Ledger characteristics, it can take proper and transparent record of every content made with it. The Soar platform intuitively offers artists a much needed chance to properly monetize their drone captured data to users who would like access to one without fear of it being cloned as a fake.

Soar Uniqueness and Relevance

The photography market has seen several drone contents in circulation from numerous sources, both verified and unverified. Some of these packaged quality contents can come in the form of videos or pictures. The views can be a specified scene or a location as is done on Google maps. The endgame comes from fact that for artists to get recognition of their works, they have to go through tedious processes to achieve that. With Soar, authentication and validation is done in a stress free and automated manner that digital imprints of the type, the view, the location and the time the shots were taken are recorded accordingly and even viewed by the drone operator. The drone operator is the one who does the primary role of controlling the drones as desired by his taste or market demand. With this organized and effective manner of drone operation, the Soar platform wishes to produce the world's first true super map that can be gotten through the collaboration of quality aerial map view from Soar users around the globe.

The Skymap Tokens

To ensure the proper flow of all Soar platform operations and derivatives, the Soar platform employs the means of Skymap(SKYM) tokens which are used by its subscribers to properly unlock the full abilities of their process. The SKYM token can be also be used to make relevant purchases for any type of drone content available in the Soar ecosystem as well as being a yardstick for individuals who wishes to be part of the Skysponsor and also used to reward participants of their competitive SkyBounty.

The Soar Quadtree

The ambition of the Soar community to get an extensive view of the world map and consequently produce a super map is being achieved by their usage of the Quadtree mechanism. This mechanism allows the platform to divide the map of the world into 4 parts and then hunt for drone content through captures of the several divided regions. The process is repeated until a comprehensive repetitive view of the globe is gotten. This is done to deliver the best product available from different operators around the world. To achieve this, the Soar platform is introducing an open access invitation for drone data artists around the world, to contest for SKYM tokens through the best contents from the works.

The SkyBounty Process

The vision of the Soar platform is that of drone content awareness, valuation and validation using the blockchain. It does not included the operation of drones or any kind. They are more or less like the custodians of the drone contents being gotten by their users. Therefore, to motivate drone operators to do much more and obtain quality contents, the Soar platform organizes a SkyBounty to get the best views from the numerous artists on their blockchain. The SkyBounty involves incentive programmers that are used to reward drone controllers for taking the best drone content from a chosen location of their choice. During each SkyBounty opening, the drone operators are provided with a particular grid to show their photographic aerial skills.

One of such SkyBounty program is the Soar Worldwide Photography Competition which invites users from all over the world that are drone operators, to show beautiful drone contents that they have made. The programme is on going and has started from August 20th, 2018 to end on September 30th, 2018. This competition invites all competitors from any part of the world provided you have a drone that can take good aerial photographs. The topic is tagged with the proven fact that "Some things look better from above".

For users to participate in this contest they will have to join the Soar Competition page by signing up and then eventually inviting friends and we'll wishers to vote for their resulting output. The individuals with the highest votes together with the ones that are selected by the Soar panel of judges will be recommended for awards using the SKYM tokens.

The prize pools for the winners are in this order:

1st Prize: DJI Drones + 2500 SKYM Tokens

2nd Prize: 4000 SKYM Tokens

3rd Prize: 3000 SKYM Tokens

4th-10th Prize: 10,500 SKYM Tokens are shared.

The voters of the competition also gain SKYM token awards for their participation in the program in order to foster transparency and good quality projection. The reward of the first prize reward for the winner of the competition involves the DJI Drone which is one of the best innovative drone technology available on the market.

From competition rules, the operators must be the authentic owners of the images submitted to be considered for the contest, hence why the blockchain technology in invaluable to Soar users.

Soar Community Double Rewards

Together with the Soar Photography competition, the Soar platform also performs another reward to incentivize their active users for their faith and participation in the platform through activities and invitation of new users to join the platform. The rewards allows users to earn extra SKYM Tokens through lucky draws. The program runs for the same duration as the Photography competition. Contesting participants must have passed the KYC audit to prevent cloning of accounts by an individual to project uniformity. Each referring user earns 10 points for a successful referral and 5 points for being interactive in the Soar Telegram social group. Ultimately, the more you refer people, the greater chance of winning.

CONCLUSION

The Soar project is a unique one which promises to offer the best that aerial photography has to offer. Image copyrights have always been an issue with centralized drone platform as not knowing whom to accredit for a particular work can cause discontent and disunity. The Soar platform is a much needed system for better record of drone photography.