About

Gender

Male


Location

Oceanside, CA


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

pictearthusa.com


Hometown:

Oceanside, CA


Activity Feed

Jeffrey Johnson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Apple bans iPhone drones
"I personally have no interest in doing any UAV dev on iPhone or any other iOS platform. I just found this interesting. It also should be pointed out that this restriction would prevent you from distributing an app through the app store, but NOT from…"
Sep 9, 2010
Jeffrey Johnson replied to Chris Anderson's discussion Suggestion for a DIY Drones code repository?
"Assembla.com is an easy way to go. I use TortoiseSVN on windows too. Integrates with the Windows File Explorer and is super easy to use.

I would also suggest something like Trac for basic task management and a wiki.

Assembla can host all of this…"
Jul 24, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Microsoft Virtual Earth now accepting DIY aerial imagery
"Somebody on another blog asked what what so onerous about Microsoft's Terms of Services. Check here for yourself to find out ... http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/product/terms.html"
Jun 24, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Microsoft Virtual Earth now accepting DIY aerial imagery
"Yep, Imagery from the Virtual Earth repository can easily be viewed on Linux platforms with various tools ... including the Mozilla Web Browser."
Jun 24, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Microsoft Virtual Earth now accepting DIY aerial imagery
"Jack, VE imagery works just fine in Firefox for Linux and other Unixes. Just not all the fancy 3D stuff."
Jun 24, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Microsoft Virtual Earth now accepting DIY aerial imagery
"The problem I have with Google and MS data is that the vast majority of data in their archives was funded with taxpayer money, usually by local, county and state governments. Which makes it kind of ridiculous when we are faced with such onerous…"
Jun 23, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Microsoft Virtual Earth now accepting DIY aerial imagery
"I suspect that 'free and open' means one thing to Microsoft, and quite another thing to those of us that participate in this group.

Check out a post about this from James Fee

http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/06/23/microsoft-would-like-to..."
Jun 23, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson replied to Scott's discussion Applications for your UAV---how do you use it?
"Two words for you ... Remote Sensing ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing

From the raw imagery that is shot from our platforms ... http://strabo.pictearth.com/missions/ ... We can produce mosaics http://openaerialmap.org/datasource/ ...…"
Jun 15, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson left a comment for ian powell
"Ian, Could you be interested in contributing to a discussion/workshop on DIYDrones and DIYAerialImaging at the FOSS4G conference in Capetown at the end of September http://conference.osgeo.org/foss4g/2008 ... Send me a mail directly…"
May 24, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson replied to crystal garris's discussion how to hack a camera to allow remote triggering
"Or just get a URBI blip device .. http://blip.com.au/item.aspx?itemID=14"
May 23, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Interested in a UAV fly-in in San Diego before AUVSI next month?
"We're there! Not sure where the best place to fly will be, but there are several existing fields that could work.

There is at least one interesting session at AUVSI insofar as DIYDrones types are concerned "Expanding into New Markets: Understanding…"
May 21, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson left a comment for Edan
"Hi Edan, My group (Pict'Earth) is also based here in SoCal, and would be interested in hooking up with you to see how we might be able to work together.

Jeff"
Apr 29, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Come join us for a Bay Area UAV fly-in! [UPDATE: Postponed!]
"Cya all there!

Also, anyone in this group is welcome to join me for a presentation at the Googleplex during WhereCamp the following weekend ... http://wherecamp.pbwiki.com/WhereCamp2008 ... This is a BarCamp style get together, so no hard and fast…"
Apr 24, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson left a comment for Gus Calderon
"Hey Gus!"
Feb 28, 2008
Jeffrey Johnson commented on Paul Gregory's blog post Building a UAV for photo mapping - Packing it all in
"Paul, We have not mounted a camera on this particular bird yet, but will be doing so over the next week or two, and will post more photos for you to check out.

Also, regarding your newer UAV post, it is not totally necessary for you to fly an…"
Dec 23, 2007
Jeffrey Johnson commented on Paul Gregory's blog post Building a UAV for photo mapping - Packing it all in
"Also notice that we moved the servos to the back.

This implementation still flys a bit nose heavy, so we are working on adding some weight to the back. In the end this bird should also fly our downlink gear as well."
Dec 23, 2007
More…