Gender
Male
About
Location
Leawood, KS
About Me:
I am an aerial mapping and aerial photography specialist, and just getting involved in unmammed aircraft. My background is in geology, where I have always been interested in mapping and earth science. I learned to fly in 1986 and have been a pilot ever since. I migrated to manned aerial surveying and geomatics in 2000 working as a pilot, sensor specialists, and flight department manager. I am not an engineer, but sometimes think I should have gone that route based upon my interests. I am fairly knowledgeable about professional aerial surveying and photography having worked in the field for many years, as well as consumer grade aerial cameras and photography for low cost applications. I am very familiar with high end survey grade GPS and IMU systems, and some remote sensing such as imaging spectrometry, thermal and IR imaging. My professional interest is in airborne remote sensing and photography, and recognize that I should become knowledgeable about unmanned aircraft. I was an avid RC pilot 25 years ago, but a lot has changed.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Interested in UAV mapping, photography, remote sensing, and data collection. Currently just getting started with a skywalker. I have to get back up to speed with basic RC flying skills, then FPV, and then UAV. I also have a very strong interest in camera mount stabilization and hope to configure an ardupilot mega to stabilize a manned aircraft mount.
Hometown:
Kansas City area, and Homer Alaska
Activity Feed
Sony came out with a new fairly compact camera with a huge footprint, 36 megapixel full frame sensor, same sensor as the nikon D800 but only 474 grams, also without a desharpening anti-aliasing filter. Its pretty expensive to put in a UAS at $2200,…
"What apm firmware did you use? The line navigation was spot on, very nice. Can you post a photo of the camera mounting as well?"
"Does anyone know if your improvements have made it into the master code for 2.69 or 2.70?"
"I have also tried this several times over the years. A year ago I tried this with an old version of apm and it worked poorly. I just tried again with 2.68 and it worked pretty well, although not perfectly. I had no reference ahrs to compare, but…"
"Did anyone get a solution for this, other than turning off all GPS Requests?
I am getting the same output when using a ublox GPS and setting gps device to 4 for the ublox. This error goes away when using a mediatek GPS (but the mediatek does not…"
I am getting the same output when using a ublox GPS and setting gps device to 4 for the ublox. This error goes away when using a mediatek GPS (but the mediatek does not…"
"Exiftool will create gpx track files from a group of images, see 'inverse geotagging" here:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/geotag.html"
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/geotag.html"
"Michael added support for intermediate waypoints along the flight line not too long ago, so now it is a fully functional graphical map based photo layout flight planner for manned aircraft as well. We also make a hardware device to connect your…"
"Mission Planner is excellent for general flight plan, download michaels mission planner and give taht a try. Are you wanting to do the mission planning for a manned plane?"
"With the new code, it is now operating as well. I have a bit of strange behavior when manually manipulating the gimbal via RC, but too early to tell. I have not tried adding the mediatek to the ArduIMU, should this work or cause any problems? When I…"
"I have attempted to test the gimbal stabilizer code, but have not yet had any luck in getting it installed and running. I have verified Michael's code in the IDE, and received a report of the code successfully uploading to the ArduIMU, (thanks to…"
"The code did verify (with the progmen modification, using arduino 022 relaxpatch, and the duemilianove atmega 328 board) but I am getting errors in uploading the code to the board:
Binary sketch size: 27162 bytes (of a 30720 byte maximum)avrdude:…"
Binary sketch size: 27162 bytes (of a 30720 byte maximum)avrdude:…"
Everyone and especially Michael,I believe that APM mission planner has an error in calculating flight plans in terms of correcting for longitudinal distances with respect to latitude. For instance, if you create north south flight lines in flight…
"OK, I'm giving it a try, but getting errors. Using arduino 0.22 relaxpatch IDE, I verified Michael's code and found the requirement for copying code from another site. I copied that variable declaration into the 'gimbal' code, and tried to verify…"
"Beautiful. Pardon my ignorance, but what is a DJI, and what is an AMP? Is the blue foam just for fabrication, or will it remain as part of the structure?
It appears that your camera is mounted on a base plate with dampening between it and its…"
It appears that your camera is mounted on a base plate with dampening between it and its…"
"Amazing. Arducopter developers have their work cut out for them."
"Is their any option to change the map orientation on the navigation tab to something other than North up? Sometimes a 'course up' or a 'track up' orientation would be handy."
