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Male


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Santa Barbara, CA


About Me:

UAV specialist


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Terrain point clouds, digital elevation models


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santa barbara


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Forest Mapper commented on Ryan's blog post Laser Range Finder Hack?
"The Hobbyking laser ranger is not fast enough work while in motion, nor are the other golf and hunting type laser range finder. The Bosch is fast enough however and it has a nice TTL level serial connection you can interface with your computer. The…"
Aug 27, 2016
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
"Structure From Motion Algorithm Renders LiDAR Technology Obsolete"
Jan 29, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
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Jan 29, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
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Jan 29, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
"Okay, trying to add images again"
Jan 29, 2015
Forest Mapper commented on Hugues's blog post 3DR Telemetry module recycled with DIY dipole & Bluetooth (tested succesfully on Droidplanner)
"Reset APM on USB connect does not resolve problem either"
Jan 28, 2015
Forest Mapper commented on Hugues's blog post 3DR Telemetry module recycled with DIY dipole & Bluetooth (tested succesfully on Droidplanner)
"DOES NOT WOEK WITH MP FOR WINDOWS"
Jan 28, 2015
Forest Mapper commented on Hugues's blog post 3DR Telemetry module recycled with DIY dipole & Bluetooth (tested succesfully on Droidplanner)
"This thing does not work with Mission Planner for Windows. You can however connect with QGround Control. I think it is a timing issue where the BT module takes too long so MP times out. I am going to try re-directing to a vifrtual com port and then…"
Jan 28, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
"screen capture"
Jan 28, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
"Screen capture from Google Earth of the FX61 flight path to create the point cloud"
Jan 28, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
"The KMZ flight path files failed to load on this forum so I created a screen capture of the flight-path the intrepid FX61 used to create the point cloud. Take note how I glide into the waypoints to minimize motor vibration."
Jan 28, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to UAV_Enthusiast's discussion MAVLINK 1.0 Checksum Protocol
"I am generating the correct checksum for MavLink packets using the CRC16CCIT 8408 polynomial in VBA. The 1021 polynomial DOES NOT WORK for me. I don't care what the documentation says, the checksum  is NOT the CRC16CCIT X.25 standard. The header…"
Jan 28, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
"Cala,

A few more things. I don't use the built in camera trigger to trigger the photo-bursting but I do use it to test the position of the servo arm vs. PWM value the APM sees. What I do is change "set camera trigger" in the configuration screen of…"
Jan 28, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
"Cala, I trigger the lumix with the  Do_Set_Servo command  and I also use Condition_Delay

Here is the process.  The Lumix is always in sleep mode so when shutter button is pressed for 1s, the camera turns on. This means only a single mechanical…"
Jan 28, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Anna Tian's discussion Best open source autopilots v.s. commercial autopilots for conventional fixed wing unmanned aircraft usage
"Petr,
I use the FX-61 for remote forest point cloud mapping. I also build and sell them to researchers who use them outside the USA for point cloud mapping remote forests.
I build the fx-61 system ( and FX-79 Buffalo and Sky-Hunter to name a few)…"
Jan 27, 2015
Forest Mapper replied to Mateusz Sadowski's discussion How to read acceleration from APM using mavlink (c++)?
"The accelerometer output is fused with the GPS. Turn off the GPS control parameter. That will stabilize the output for other projects."
Jan 25, 2015
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