"Zephyr - hand launched to over 70,000 feet. Oh and flew for 14 days."

"Wifi stuff = clever Flying it over kids = not clever"

"Yes, but as the quote in the article says it's the sort of industry where new things have to gestate and be around for a while before people accept or trust them. That's why we've been at all the arable shows and events for a couple…"

"We're fortunate that in the UK we're already able to deliver commercial services using UAS: http://www.ursula-agriculture.com/"

"Regular commercial service for forestry: http://www.forestryjournal.co.uk/newsitefiles/2012/0112Web/UAS.pdf"

"Hi CharlieThis is very much an area where UAS (drone) remote sensing can be of use. My company regularly provides forestry and agricultural remote sensing data with unmanned aircraft in colour or multispectral imagery and digital surface models.…"

"I think low altitude dynamic effects and stability issues are the elephant in the room.... :)"

"Gary, blatant photoshopping! "

"Why?"

"We operate services so yes, as the product is the imagery."

"Sorry Kryzs but you're a long way off being the first such civil installation. We flew our first combined NIR/RGB installation about three years ago and weren't the first in the world. I'm afraid I can't post pics of the latest…"

"Bare bones COFDM links are still $20k usually."

"Hi Roger A boffin in England is a clever engineer or scientist or maybe a bit of a Geek too! I am just a pilot so don't really know much about the science!   Here's a photo from a camera converted as you describe. If you split the RGB…"

"Best of luck!"

"Hi Roger "Images taken with modified near infrared camera will contain 0 pixel values for the green and blue images." I think that you will find (as I did when I first tried it) that each of the RGB channels, not jut the RED collect a lot…"

"Hi   Sorry I didn't mean to be 'right' or disissive so sorry if I sounded a bit negative.   I think there's a couple of further considerations; An automatic camera will choose a shutter speed and aperature dependant of…"