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Redlands, CA


About Me:

Been slowly building up my UAV and now have computer control from the base station.


Hometown:

Redlands, CA


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Edan posted a discussion
Hi everyone,I am volunteering with a search and rescue group looking for a downed US missionary pilot lost in the Venezuelan jungle. His name was Bob Norton and his aircraft went down two years ago with 7 total onboard.You can read about the search…
Feb 25, 2011
Edan commented on Edan's blog post Tracking your UAV in a 3D environment
"Georectification,
thanks for the post.
Things are changing on the ArcGIS explorer application and we are releasing our Beta version within the week with a new UI experience. You can read about it here:…"
Mar 24, 2009
Edan posted a blog post
Hey guys,this isn't a UAV post. I just wanted to point you at an inspirational RC aircraft site from a guy near me. His write ups are amazing, the level of detail and lists of all hardware is brilliant.Check out Don's experimental projects once…
Oct 17, 2008
Edan commented on Edan's blog post Tracking your UAV in a 3D environment
"OpenGL displaylist (the actual drawn objects)

for clarity"
Oct 15, 2008
Edan commented on Edan's blog post Tracking your UAV in a 3D environment
"Sounds like an easy implementation, setup a connection to the serial port, listen for the change event, parse the string, then consume the relative pieces of it. Each object is held within a displaylist once created, and its ID within this list…"
Oct 15, 2008
Edan commented on Edan's blog post Tracking your UAV in a 3D environment
"One last thing before I sign off. If any of you are wondering about how you could get a 3D glyph (model), check out the Google 3D warehouse.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=UAV&btnG=Search...


The Millennium Falcon was downloaded…"
Oct 15, 2008
Edan commented on Edan's blog post Tracking your UAV in a 3D environment
"bGatti,
Hope it can be of use. Let me know if you implement anything with the SDK, I would be interested in hearing about it.

Edan"
Oct 15, 2008
Edan commented on Edan's blog post Tracking your UAV in a 3D environment
"Hey Paul,
the serverStyleDemo with the Millennium Falcon shown above was written purely to get people thinking about what is possible. I really hoped someone doing what you're doing might get an idea of how they could use it. There is no defined…"
Oct 15, 2008
Edan commented on Edan's blog post Tracking your UAV in a 3D environment
"Sgt Ric,
like I said, didn't want to plug ESRI as such, but I feel people on the forum could really get some benefit from explorer. I'm only an email away to explain things or provide a snippet of code to help your ideas. In my free time I've coded…"
Oct 12, 2008
Edan commented on Edan's blog post Tracking your UAV in a 3D environment
"Hey Chris, Sgt Ric,
you are free to download and use it and free to distribute it.

I'll answer both your questions reagrding modifying and what I meant by 'you have a clean entry point to add custom code to it'.
The only way we allow you to add…"
Oct 12, 2008
Edan posted a blog post
NB: Edited earlier post with new link to script download site. Also, if you check the arcscripts site there is a flip book animator for the application that will iterate through georectified images in the order you set based on a timer, or manually…
Oct 11, 2008
Edan left a comment for Scott Fry
"hey Scott,
had a really quick look at your website, interesting work. Look forward to reading more once out of work tonight.

Edan"
Oct 10, 2008
Edan left a comment for Edan
"Hi Jeff.
i've taken a look at your website before actually. Definately interested. Will take a look at Carbon tonight. Need to take another look at Google Earth also as I see they have a HUD flight sim now. I do a lot OpenGL here and my ground…"
Apr 29, 2008
Edan replied to Scott James's discussion Recording NMEA Strings for testing........... somehow?
"Guys,
the easiest way to capture NMEA is using hyper terminal. Comes with XP, start the app. Give it some arbitrary name, click ok, click the Connect Using and select the port that your GPS is connected too. Click ok, set up your baud rate, data…"
Apr 28, 2008
Edan replied to crystal garris's discussion looking for a windows coder
"Hi,
guys I work for ESRI and code on one of our 3D products. I've worked on server technologies and mobile technologies. GPS, nav math, can code in.NET, C++, COM. I'm interested, but only on the right application, right people.

Interested in…"
Apr 28, 2008
Edan left a comment for icebear
"Icebear,
what kind of camera are you using? The video quality is really good. All recorded are are you transmitting?
Thanks,
Edan"
Mar 27, 2008