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Gender

Male


About Me:

UAS Pilot from Sweden. I am a survey pilot, but does the odd inspection flight as well.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I fly an Aibotix x6 V2 3DR X8 Home made Tri-copter Home made Quad copter APM2.5 FPV RC plane with 2 motors and camera in the nose.


Hometown:

Björklinge


Activity Feed

Cedric Pieterse replied to Quan Le's discussion Drone topographical survey for agriculture in Africa - What have we done wrong? Business opportunity in Agricultural UAVs
"Nope.
You can only rely on the hard surface. To get reliable ground surface points in the vegetation areas, you are going to need a VERY good LIDAR or the tried and trusted method of physycally measuring with RTK/Total station.

Drones are not the…"
Jan 8, 2016
Cedric Pieterse replied to Quan Le's discussion Drone topographical survey for agriculture in Africa - What have we done wrong? Business opportunity in Agricultural UAVs
"Hi Quan,
On the bare ground, you will get good data, but on the trees and grass, you will only get the surface..
Water is obviously a no-no, and anything that moves or reflects."
Jan 8, 2016
Cedric Pieterse replied to Quan Le's discussion Drone topographical survey for agriculture in Africa - What have we done wrong? Business opportunity in Agricultural UAVs
"Thank you kindly sir!"
Jan 8, 2016
Cedric Pieterse commented on Luke Wijnberg's blog post Aerial Survey in Uganda
"Nice blog post Luke!I have done some simmilar stuff here in Sweden, but on a smaller scale. I surveyed a 3.5km stretch of river bed, to make a 3D model for a fish psycologist working for a power company. They want to restore the river to re-open the…"
Jan 8, 2016
Cedric Pieterse replied to Quan Le's discussion Drone topographical survey for agriculture in Africa - What have we done wrong? Business opportunity in Agricultural UAVs
"Hi there Quan, yes I did compare my drone data with a total station. As you can imagine, I did get a lot of raised eybrows when I claimed that my drone data was as accurate as it is. I contacted Leica Geosystems, and we did a comparison test with…"
Jan 8, 2016
Cedric Pieterse replied to Quan Le's discussion Drone topographical survey for agriculture in Africa - What have we done wrong? Business opportunity in Agricultural UAVs
"I am a survey pilot based in Sweden.I do very high resolution surveys for engineering applications and high grade survey applications, as well as ultra high resolution, georeferenced ortho photos.Without good GCP (Ground Controll Points) you will…"
Jan 7, 2016