Commercial use of drones in farms and other agriculture
Open Source Drone Payload Project Supporting In-Flight AI
I'm leading a project to develop a completely open source system for deploying artificial intelligence and computer vision on a drone. We are trying to make the system as general purpose as possible, but one application would be supporting precision agricultural. The real-time, in-flight processing aspects of the payload are probably less interesting for precision AG, but the data collection and curation capabilities might be. We are getting started with a few specific missions, we are…
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The issue is the hardware itself. Poor quality digital imaging sensors create these gaps, miscues, and poor data results. With the proper imaging sensor, lenses, camera electronics designed specifically for the application there is no need to correct for clouds, light breaks, even bad weather.
This is the real issue with the current hardware being used. Consumer grade imaging sensors, cameras, and lenses are not made for quality data, they are made to take pretty pictures.
No matter what camera being used, Canon, Sony, Nikon, etc that has had its Visible filter removed and replaced with something else, you still have a consumer grade sensor, lens, electronics.
Wow - great article RIchard Burd! Thanks for sharing!
Realtime image analysis is currently in use, has been for some time. We support several cameras with embedded computers, both MS & Linux. Image processing is onboard, using wide bandwidth wireless, realtime processed images cuts flight time as well.
Instead of multiple flights to build a data base, data can be achieved in a single pass.
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Hi .. Name Leo Currently Sanae Base Antarctica. Transforming Electric Glider to Drone. Saw same requirements in NAM few months ago. Like to get involved.
http://www.agweb.com/drone_zone.aspx
http://youtu.be/Hu28ltyBxro
The video was shot at a site where we have a COA.
The coverage is limited by the duration of the aircraft and the typical regulatory restrictions of flying line of sight.
Hi Micheal, I would like to become more involved in this field it interests me. Regarding algae blooms do you use NVDI? Also is the monitoring of these purely for the benchmarking of treatments? Also 40 acres is 0.2km^2 and this entails whats kind of flight path? Is it perimeter or sectional?