Commercial use of drones in farms and other agriculture
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Vega Tech,
I apologize, I should have been more specific. I was speaking in regards to the aerial mapping field in general using traditional fixed and rotor wing aircraft's for acquisition for mapping purposes. The systems used in that specific industry generally cost over a million dollars. These are systems like the Vexel series from Microsoft, the DMC series from ZI, and the ADS series from Leica. These systems are designed to cover very large areas with very high resolutions using metric camera systems designed for the sole intent of mapping. That price is justified by the reliability of the systems and their ability to cover a huge amount of land in a single mission. I think that having a camera system for an sUAS that cost the same would be very difficult to justify for commercial applications. The appeal of an sUAS system in the mapping industry is that it can collect data of a similar but lesser quality of a small area for a small fraction of the cost. I certainly wish you the best of luck and look forward to looking at your projects. I just think you might find difficulty marketing such a system to the commercial market. Perhaps military applications would be better suited for such a system.
A typical camera development program can easily be in the millions of dollars.
We are working on a low light(4-e), very high dynamic range(120+db) CMOS sensor program at the moment, cost $1.5M. This sensor is actually for use in a UAV. The application is Sense & Avoid. The sensor will not be saturated flying direct in to strong light, including in to the Sun. With Low Light, the sensors can image in almost any condition, even near total darkness without any form of illumination.
These will be military grade sensors, so they will not have bad pixels, sealed in a water tight ceramic package. Unfortunately, funding is not available to make them Space Grade.
The issue, is the hardware designed for the application? That is where we are going at this time.
Please look up e2V EMCCD's, Fairchild sCMOS, and visit emva.org & spie.org
Especially EMVA. We are installing an EMVA 1288 test & certification center at the U of Dayton in a few days. I will be there tomorrow unpacking the equipment.
There is a free download of the EMVA 1288 standard on their website.
We are currently working on a FOPEN(Foliage Penetration) project, to incorporate a Hyper-Multi Spectral Hybrid Prism Array Camera, with NIR to 1000nm. The system is designed specifically for Precision Agriculture.
If any one is interested, please send me an email. I would be happy to send specs on these projects.
@Vega Tech: I understand that you speak out of your own experience, since you seem to be the marketing voice of your company that is selling high end picture processors.
Nonetheless, I would welcome you to post examples of your sayings. This can also be a scientific publication or something like Richard Burd's intervention.
On the other hand, please elaborate how something that is located between the light source and the object to examine will not have an influence on analysis....
Vega Tech,
I don't believe that statement to be true.Camera and lenses quality certainly plays a factor however we have been using metric camera designed for aerial mapping for years. First film and now digital. These systems cost well over a million dollars and we still take into consideration clouds, sun angle, and weather. These variables will always be a factor with airborne image remote sensing.
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.
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 Scott, what airframe / platform are you using for all that? Plane or 'copter? I'm curious about your setup. Thanks for any info. - Jim
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