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Permalink Reply by Nathan Brooks on March 18, 2011 at 12:01pm

 

I am exploring this possibility as well. I am in Canada, so that opens some doors and closes others. We should talk as I have found some things out but don't have anything running yet. I know some Canadian Companies that have gliders that would be easily adapted and some good IR cameras. But is always a matter of money. Have you found anything out yet? I was planning on adapting mine to do wildlife counts.

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Permalink Reply by Yaniv Eliash on July 17, 2011 at 1:48pm

Any suggestion on a particular IR camera ?

 

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Brooks on September 21, 2011 at 12:56pm

I liked the looks of the Tau line from a company FLIR i don't know if there is any stipulations on buyers though.

 also see http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/flir-tau-and-other-ir-cameras

 

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Permalink Reply by Trent H on May 6, 2011 at 10:24am

I am currently working for a small company providing aerial surveillance solutions.  We are looking to adapt our low-cost unmanned system to an SAR application.  I would like to talk further to understand how you would like to solve you current problems.  Please message me for my private e-mail.

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Permalink Reply by ceise on May 6, 2011 at 1:07pm

The link below should be a good start based on your parameters above.

http://www.insitu.com/inceptor

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Permalink Reply by Graydon Tranquilla on September 1, 2011 at 7:34pm

One possible solution but far too expensive from my perspective.

 

http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x6/

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Doug Weibel on September 21, 2011 at 8:50pm

Getting a FAA COA to fly the missions is a bigger hurdle than buying a system.

 

You should talk with Chris Miser of CLMax Engineering (google his website).  He has a system for just your intended use under development, which I consult on a bit and which is quite far along.  More importantly he is working with law enforcement agencies to get COA's for flying his system on SAR missions, and it appears that those agencies are having some success in getting the COAs.

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Doug Weibel on September 22, 2011 at 7:31am

I see Chris has a new website for the commercial uav which is falcon-uav.com

 

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Permalink Reply by Ian Painter on October 12, 2011 at 10:11pm

i came across RQ-1 style kits on the fleabay for $70 (minus motors servos and electronics) it is feasable to use a weedwacker or similar motor and get a good range and decent payload. most of the cost would be in the FLIR unit. coupled with a contour 1080 i could see a fixed camera with a 130 degree wide angle lens so it could scan a path close to 500m wide at 200 feet or so with good resilution. you would have to develop a program to reconise human sized 'blips' on the FLIR video and triangulat the position relative to the UAV and maybe a IR laser beam firing strait down from the UAV for the third reference point....

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Permalink Reply by Ian Painter on October 12, 2011 at 10:56pm

the Palm IR pro might be a good choice for the IR camera, very sensative and can be switched between black/white hot and color. B/W might be a beter choice when programing for auto recognition of hot spots.   www.nationalinfrared.com/palm_ir_pro.php

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Permalink Reply by Ian Painter on October 13, 2011 at 4:29pm

err... broken link www.nationalinfrared.com under the products section for hand held devices. it should be easy enough to hard wire the ribon cable going to the display into a RF transmiter. that way the image processing for persons recognition can be done on site or mobile with a laptop.

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