1. A method comprising: at a mobile computing device installed in a first unmanned aerial vehicle: downloading a first flight data from a remote computer system; uploading the first flight data to an autopilot module arranged in the first unmanned aerial vehicle for execution by the unmanned aerial vehicle during a mission; during the mission, collecting environmental data proximal to the first flight data at a first time; during the mission, collecting telemetry data comprising a set of geospatial coordinates of the first unmanned aerial vehicle at the first time; coupling the environmental data to the telemetry data within a first data packet; and transmitting the first data packet to the remote computer system.