Photo taking

Posted by Richard Yap on November 19, 2013 at 8:53am

Hi There,

I'm new to UAV, just wondering how can a mounted digital camera be activated to take photos at certain intervals while in the air?  Can the intervals of photo taking be controlled from the Mission Planner?

Thanks,

Richard

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  • Richard Yap November 23, 2013 at 3:53am

    Thank you all for your help, great advice!

  • Richard Yap November 19, 2013 at 6:51pm

    Thank you guys for the replies.  Yes, I need to do aerial mapping.  I will be working for a company that has a fruit farm that covers an area of about 660 acres. I have been tasked to explore the use UAVs for the management and monitoring of the farm. Would appreciate if you could provide recommendation(s) as to what type of UAVs I should consider purchasing.

    We plan to fly the UAV(s) at least once a day to cover the whole farm using different types of camera (eg. Infrared camera). As data is collected daily, with the availability of Big Data, I would be interested to know whether there are analytical software that is currently available that we can use for fruit farm management and monitoring.


    1. I would like to know what types of UAVs are suitable for us
    2. How many UAVs do we need to cover 660 acres of farm daily.  For a farm of this size, will a copter be appropriate or a plane?  How long does the craft need to be in the air to cover the whole area in a single mission?  what would be an appropriate Mission Planner settings, eg. how high to fly the craft, and so on.

    3. Is it possible to mount more than one camera on the craft? Eg: 1. For live-video feed to the base station. 2. For Normal photography, 3. For Near-infrared photography.

    Thanks,

    Richard

  • Michael Leasure November 19, 2013 at 4:16pm
    Yes, regardless of how you are triggering the camera, mission planner can be used. I don't have it open in front of me but recall it is contained in the row of buttons below the hud, along the bottom of the flight data screen, or by right clicking the waypoint icon. Are you aerial mapping?
  • Andreas November 19, 2013 at 2:04pm

    CHDK

  • Arnaud Vandecasteele November 19, 2013 at 9:03am

    Hi Richard,

    If you use a Canon as a camera with CHDK, it's an easy process.

    The simple way is to use an intervalometer script, that takes a picture every N second:

    See this discussion

    But if you use a specific wire, you can control everything from the mission planner software :

    See this video on Flight Riot

    More information here as well.

    Arnaud

    • umberto colpi > Arnaud Vandecasteele February 12, 2014 at 9:34am

      Hi! 

      were i connect the usb chdk cable to the APM 2.6??

      i want to control the camera trigger by MP software (survey) 

      wich script i must to load inside the chdk ?

      Thank's a lot .

      bye

      Umberto

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