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Alameda, CA


About Me:

psycho hobbyist


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

making cheap orthophotos


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Alameda


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Chris Nicholas posted a discussion
greetings -I'm looking for someone in the SF Bay area to work with me to effectively implement a long-range, information harvesting 'information bee' , along the lines of this pioneering work a few years back:http://wadi.ioI've tried to reach these…
Nov 9, 2017
Chris Nicholas commented on Patrick Meier's blog post Official UN Policy Brief on Humanitarian UAVs
"a nice thought, but a glance at their own public info site, http://reliefweb.int/ , gives you an idea where their resources are needed most...
Certainly floods are a huge challenge. But again, (as Patrick knows from my posts over the years...)…"
Aug 28, 2014
Chris Nicholas commented on Patrick Meier's blog post Official UN Policy Brief on Humanitarian UAVs
"Be aware that, unlike the Bay Area, these are often *very* nasty places we are talking about, and OpenSource/DIY may quickly suffer "the law of unintended consequences".
In conflict areas, the transition from "hobbyist" / "do-good-ers" to flying…"
Aug 28, 2014
Chris Nicholas replied to Asa B-S's discussion Aerial drone as UHF/VHF repeater and eye in the sky
"Interesting! 
I'm working with parks in the Congo for anti-poaching and general surveillance of the parks (animal counts at watering holes, etc) and wondering about the "inverse" - if one might use digipeaters to maintain contact with at least the…"
Aug 28, 2014