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Shepparton, Victoria


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UAV for agriculture and surveying


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Grant Oswald commented on Karan Chawla's blog post Techpod Dev Team - Open source
"This sounds really exciting. I hope this open source idea goes well!"
May 6, 2014
Grant Oswald replied to José Portillo's discussion Agricultural UAVs in Agricultural UAVs
"Hi,
This looks great. Some questions tho.
1. How do they tell if the crop is suffering from lack of nitrogen rather than some other form of stress like moisture etc.? I thought the NVDI just told you which parts of the crop we struggling?
2. How…"
May 5, 2014
Grant Oswald commented on Mark Harrison's blog post Centimeter-level precision GPS for $900
"Hey Lanmark,
I've been thinking about work flow as a farmer. The cheap infrared camera' s I believe can only identify plants that arn't growing well for what ever reason. So UAV flys around taking photo's. Photo's then analysed by software looking…"
Aug 7, 2013
Grant Oswald commented on Mark Harrison's blog post Centimeter-level precision GPS for $900
"Just wondering? Using the Agixel software and having this in the UAV to georef the photos would that remove the requirements to stitch the photos for NVDI applications? Reason I ask if I don't need to stitch and overlap the photos when capturing the…"
Aug 6, 2013
Grant Oswald replied to Fouad Mahmud's discussion Flight Planning Software for ArduPilot Aerial Mapping
"Just wondering what people are doing for this? Has their been software created? People using spreadsheets? 
cheers"
Jul 25, 2013
Grant Oswald commented on keeyen pang's blog post Aerial mapping stitch by MS ICE
"So would it be possible to simply georeferenced this image using control points (known reference locations) with a program like global mapper? Or is the image stitching not good enough in ICE to do this? Obviously this wouldn't give elevation data…"
Jul 23, 2013
Grant Oswald replied to John Beene's discussion Adding NovAtel OEM6 Support
"Just wondering what the the approx. cost of the oem 615 card is?"
Jul 22, 2013
Grant Oswald replied to Matt Gunn's discussion Anyone successfully gotten their camera to trigger on waypoint?
"Looks like they have enabled trigger by distance in 2.74. Thanks so much to the dev's."
Jul 16, 2013
Grant Oswald replied to Matt Gunn's discussion Let's talk Canon cameras
"I suppose it depends on your application? Each of us may be aiming for a different purpose. My ultimate aim is to be able to create Ortho-photography to a high accuracy like these guys in ireland..http://www.uav.ie/ortho.html . In his…"
Jun 28, 2013
Grant Oswald replied to Matt Gunn's discussion Let's talk Canon cameras
"Actually get this camera when its released... http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20130627/samsung-galaxy-nx-camera-an...

use the android to run triggertrap. Should = great setup?
In the mean time I'll try it out with my sony xz to see how it all works."
Jun 27, 2013
Grant Oswald commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Farm drones are hot!
"Pretty good article really. I agree with your comments Kevin. I believe that they would hold true here in Australia. I can see that drones will be used as a tool for agronomists / consultants rather than everyday farmers. I have tried to find…"
Jun 24, 2013
Grant Oswald replied to SKYBORNE's discussion Stitching Aerial Photos for 3D
"Hey sort of related to this. I'm wanting to do only 2D photo stitching. So I can measure lengths and areas. I'll use a canon with gps. Any easy idea's ? thanks"
Jun 17, 2013