Our exclusive RF-70 fixed wing is about to land soon... stay tuned. It's the only 2.0 density foam plane I know of and it is tough as nails. Email me for details: phil@roboflight.com and visit us at Facebook @roboflight We also process and st
Read more…I am curious as to how fast this sector is growing (given the known FAA constraints). Any data points? Even if anecdotal it would be good to hear. I have come across about 10 to 12 North American firms.
Read more…We had the opportunity to head out to Illinois last week to get one of our drones into the hands a company that some test plots and to set up a booth at the inaugural Precision Aerial Ag Show (PAAS). The show was really illuminating and I was overwhe
Read more…I have been working on a crop/golf course dusting Hex AgCopter. I am using a DJI S800 with DIY APM as the controller. We did some preliminary test using a simple spray rig to test the feasibility. It was a good test and now I'm working on a better sp
Read more…Hi, I plan to modify the Canon S110 to capture IR image only by replacing the internal filter with a 720 nm long pass filter. I am wondering if anybody has experience with that and how is the image quality in the air. I have read that the point and s
Read more…I have this crazy idea of building a crop dusting copter. It could be multi purpose vehicle but spraying all kinds of crops on those huge fields drives me crazy :) It could also pretty nicely fall into the concept of precision agriculture when first
Read more…Dear All,
Thanks for all of the great discussion on my last post about the DVI vs. NDVI vegetation indices. We have done a lot more work in the area and have come to a pretty strong conclusion that, for our purposes and equipment, DVI images really na
Read more…Dear UAV fellows,
now that I have a drone with RGB and NGB cameras onboard, Pixhawk working well (except airspeed sensor), automatic triggering of both cameras at the same time (sync), Photoscan Pro to deliver orthomosaic/DEM pretty easy and fast, I c
Hello,
I am trying to trigger my Canon S110 using a USB gentwire cable from Gentles and CHDK. I have seen the guide on copter.ardupilot.com but it relies on using Channel 7 Output pin and as I have an octocopter I can't do that.
I have a couple questio
Thanks to all of your for your great feedback on my last blog post on airframe selection. There has been a lot of interest and misinformation about NDVI images on here recently, so I thought the topic deserved its own post. Briefly, I explained a lit
Read more…I am working on putting a system together and my concern is that I may need to gimbal the camera which is a canon A810 to keep my shots pointing mostly at the ground. Has anyone else had experience with this, and if you have could you list the gimal
Read more…There is a heated discussion below about quadcopter vs. fixed wings for agricultural applications and I mentioned I would write up how Agribotix selected the RV Jet as an airframe.
Briefly, a fixed wing is roughly five times more efficient than a quad
Read more…Hello everyone.
Watching the sUAS Expo in San Francisco really got me thinking... we are at the beginning of a HUGE trend.
The consensus is that the number one application for Drone technology over the next few years will be Agriculture. More
I am really interested in working with some of my farmer friends to monitor crops using NDVI. I get the concept, but what I am struggling with is using the reading to reflect nitrogen needs vs irrigation needs. I have been reading scholarly articles,
Read more…Smiling :-) Farmers may or may not use advanced technology (GPS tractors, etc....).
Do you just explain what you do in a few words, give a biz card and let them think about it ?
Or do you have your drone in hand and make a free first session and hand i
Read more…Hi,
I have been doing a lot of reading around the use of UAV's for Agriculture, a lessons learned by 3DR staff related to the agricultural use of UAV's (http://robohub.org/ten-lessons-for-farm-drones/) basically said that multi rotors would be a more
Read more…The emphasis in the agricultural drone space lies heavily on conventional, irrigated farming. Most companies are interested in fertilizer application and general indicators of crop health, but we suspected that organic farmers may be able to find som
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I wonder if anyone can tell me where to get UAVs with functionality similar to these:
If it exists in the current market, I am interested in acquiring.
regards
Read more…New to the group but not to UAVs or GIS. Have a quick question about imagery processing packages that I bet you guys can help with.
I am an advanced user of packages such as ArcGIS, Global Mapper, and Photoscan. I have experience with ENVI as well. I
Read more…Hi all,
I have been silently watching this group for months now and reading as much as I can and I am finally at a point where I would like to ask for input.
I live in South Korea and at the moment UAVs are just a hobby, but like many of you I would li
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