Hi. I'm thinking about building a fixed wing base, to use as base for a camera intended for photogrammetry. I have access to Context Capture. I'm thinking of something rather lightweight, meaning do super heavy long lense stuff on board. Any suggesti
Read more…I'm leading a project to develop a completely open source system for deploying artificial intelligence and computer vision on a drone, and I thought Terrain/Surface Mapping might be interested. The goal is to support research groups monitoring things
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I have a Tarot X6 960 with 3DR Pixhawk FCU.
Until now, I made 3D mapping and orthophoto with a DJI Phantom 3 Professional, post-processing the images in Pix4D.
I would buy a camera to do mainly 3D mapping and orthophoto with the Tarot X6.
I just
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I have a quadcopter tarot 650 and I really don`t know how mount camera sony a6000. Main goal is mapping and DTM. I have two soultions:
1) something like that http://www.impconcepts.com/impstore/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=152&sear
Read more…I'm testing an Inspire 1 Pro with x5 camera and 25mm lens (50mm equivalent) for photogrammetry.
It is working fine but due to the 50mm field of view I have to fly at 200m height, and missions take a lot of time. The other lens I have is a 12mm (24mm e
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I really like the idea behind the Propeller Aeropoints. Those are basically GCP targets with integrated PPK GPS. They are quite expensive, about $6.000 USD for 10 pieces, but that's still cheaper than a professional surveyor-grade RTK system, and
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Hello all,
We at Airborne Projects have been busy testing and getting feedback on our new product DROTAG that allows your Sony Alpha camera (A5000/A5100/A6000) to be triggered by any APM with a telemetry port. It also tags your images in flight with t
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I'm a professinnal mapper, began 2 years ago with an Ebee from sensefly and now with several multirotors and different cameras configurations.
I want to use the maps i produce with Ebee drone /pix4D in a GCS app like mission planner or Tower.
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I have made several missions using the Do-Set-Cam-Trigg-Dist command and a distance of 6 meters.
But the number of shooted photos considering the distance the copter flew from first to last waypoint is about the half .
The camera a Sony A7R as a
Read more…I have read here (http://tuffwing.com/support/geotag_gopro_images_with_pixhawk_log.html) that to be shure that Cam events , like Do-Set-Cam-Trigg-Dist, will be recorded on the flyght log , the value of LOG_BITMASK 655358 must be set .
The problem is
Read more…Hi all,
until now I made 3D mapping and nadir photography without any ground control points.
Next week I'll have to map a terrain on a slope, and I would use ground control points to get precise results.
I'm using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional and Pix4D,
Read more…If you're starting in the mapping business and don't or can't afford to invest in more expensive equipment for your plane/copter but have a good Sony Alpha camera (A6000, A5100, A5000, etc) and some Nikon or Canon models, don't want to risk damaging
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We at Airborne Projects are in the process of testing an integration of the Sony Alpha 5000 with the APM/Pixhawk with very good results so far and we are starting this thread to showcase and get feedback on a possible product.
The capabi
I have been playing around with a couple of GentWire USB2 Canon triggers, CHDK and two ELPH 110 HS cameras (one converted by MaxMax for NIR images). My goal was to get them to take a picture at the same time so that I can use the images for stereogr
Read more…I've been operating a Pixhawk piloted aircraft and quad for about a year. Recently I bought a DJI Phantom and was impressed with how easy it was to work with the pictures that it took. The pictures aren't as high quality as I need though. Right no
Read more…hi all, i am a newbee to handling drone ortho data. i was able to figureout to use pix4d for my processing. i have taken up a client pilot project for survey. however when i have delivered then the dtm output i have from pix4d output, he sent me a re
Read more…I've been developing my system for aerial surveying, no big deal, just an Iris+ with a Canon S100, and wondering if it ever makes sense to not use GCPs even if you have RTK.
The sticking point to me seems to be in the uncertainty of camera attitude. E
Read more…I've just started using the great tool for geotagging photos with the flight log in Mission Planner's (v1.3.10). While most of the Wiki describing this tool is refreshingly clear, maybe the section on Field of View could perhaps be more complete.
I'm
Hi all,
I just want to share with you some of the work we have been doing using small unmanned aerial vehicles (primarily the APM 2.6 equipped SteadiDrone QU4D) internationally. Towards the end of 2013, Micro Aerial Projects L.L.C. received an innovat
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