About

About Me:

I'm CEO of BitMapping. BitMapping develops UAVs for agricultural and archeological mapping. We also develop Mavis. Mavis is our software for UAV data processing. Mavis provides a complete workflow from precise image geo-tagging, to generating orthomosaics, to analyze and post-process the data, to derive vegetation indices as well as to generate reports. mavis.bitmapping.de


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Environmental mapping


Hometown:

Europe


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Thorsten commented on Julian's blog post 3DR's Rise and Fall
"@Jesus, yes that's sad!
I hope they restructure and start working developing new products with and for the community again. It would be a pity if not. "
Oct 6, 2016
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Thorsten commented on DROTEK's blog post TinyRTK Drone Edition - Fully integrated RTK module with u-blox NEO-M8P
"@Drotek
thanks for clarifying! Would be great if you could post some details (in the docs on your website) ablout the modifications on the calbles and configuration required. "
Sep 20, 2016
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Thorsten commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Delft VTOL project uses helicopter-style main rotor for effeciency
"That's thinking out of the box! Nice!"
Sep 20, 2016
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Thorsten commented on DROTEK's blog post TinyRTK Drone Edition - Fully integrated RTK module with u-blox NEO-M8P
"@Drotek
by "TinyRTK can otherwise be used with a dedicated datalink" do you mean it works with the Drone Edition as well or only the normal version? I am asking, because I only see one UART JST-GH port on the Drone Edition. "
Sep 20, 2016
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Thorsten commented on DROTEK's blog post TinyRTK Drone Edition - Fully integrated RTK module with u-blox NEO-M8P
"Ahh, no SD card but BLE..."
Sep 19, 2016
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Thorsten commented on DROTEK's blog post TinyRTK Drone Edition - Fully integrated RTK module with u-blox NEO-M8P
"Hi Jerome,
looks pretty perfect! Congrats!
Can you provide some more details - SD Card, time to fix (especially with these antenna, btw why not the 6mm patch antenna) etc.? 
You write that the "Base can stream differential data to ground control…"
Sep 19, 2016
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Thorsten commented on John Arne Birkeland's blog post ArduPilot and DroneCode part ways
"@Monroe King
That is all correct and I fully understand your point. Building an autopilot for teaching purposes is a great idea. And there was some post while back from a guy using a simple version of Ardupilot for teaching (probably lost somewhere…"
Sep 12, 2016
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Thorsten commented on John Arne Birkeland's blog post ArduPilot and DroneCode part ways
"Isn't the "complexity" stemming from the fact that Ardupilot is a very mature and reliable autopilot firmware that serves almost all needs with perfection. There are other firmwares focusing on specific UAVs - for example racers. But these may not…"
Sep 12, 2016
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Thorsten commented on Randy's blog post Copter-3.4's polygon fence
"Randy, 
this is a great feature! Any additional security is important.
What would be perfect would be if the polygon fence is automatically set around a survey mission area (for sure with some small buffer). This could be a simple convex hull. But I…"
Aug 16, 2016
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Thorsten commented on Chris Anderson's blog post u-blox & PX4 RTK integration on M8P GPS module
"Chris, thanks for sharing!
Looks good. Although with three laptops it looks rather complicated ;-)
CSG Shop GPS?"
Aug 15, 2016
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Thorsten commented on Barbara Grant's blog post Deleting my previous post on my UAV imager book
"Hi Hugues,
not scientific but practical:

You can fly any time you like - and not if a satellite is happy to
You can fly multiple times a day
You can change the sensor to your specific/scientific needs
You can repeat a flight if the lighning…"
Aug 1, 2016
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Thorsten commented on Barbara Grant's blog post Deleting my previous post on my UAV imager book
"Well, every third post on DIYDrones (just a guesstimate) is an advertisement. Can't be the reason, Or was it the military UAV on the cover? "
Jul 31, 2016
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Thorsten commented on Barbara Grant's blog post Deleting my previous post on my UAV imager book
"Hi Barbara,
Unfortunately I missed your post. Interesting book - thanks for sharing. Just wondering how you violated the TOS when preseting your book? 
Best regards,
Thorsten"
Jul 31, 2016
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Thorsten replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"Marcell,
I pay you a beer next time we meet! :-)"
Jul 20, 2016
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Thorsten replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"Hi Cala,
as far as I know rc2 is not out yet. But it will most probably be rebased on master.
Use Ctrl-Q in Mission Planner when you want to install the firmware. 
Cheers,
Thorsten"
Jul 20, 2016
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Thorsten replied to Randy's discussion PixRacer with Ardupilot
"Hi Marcell,
I recommend flying master (for sure at your own risk ;-))
There are lots of EKF fixes in there as well as other enhancements such as automated throttle mid setting.
Best regards,
Thorsten
Marcell Kovacs said:
Assembled, connected the…"
Jul 20, 2016
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