Currently, we are working for the student Unmanned Air Systems (SUAS) competition, and we ran into some problems for setting up the ground station.
So we have the camera that takes 4k sized images and for proper overlap we need to be taking 2 frames per second and sending them to the ground. We also have the IR camera which needs to downlink 15hz video which is 640 by 512 pixels. We need to make sure that all of the data gets relayed.
It seems like the most common and tested approach is to use a ubiquiti bullet m5 (at 5.8 ghz) and a ubiquiti bullet m2 (at 2.4 ghz) to transmit the data down to either the ubiquiti base station or a router. the questions are. Is this a good approach to communication where latency isn't a huge issue? If so should we be using the ubiquiti ground station or does using a router like a netgear r7000 seem like a better idea? Which would be easier to implement? If we used a router would we need extra Ubiquiti bullet radios on the ground for communication?
Also what type of antennas should we be using for communication over 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz at ranges up to half a mile? This is assuming that we have built some kind of antenna tracking array, but not a very accurate one.
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