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Joseph Douglas replied to Shawn McCracken's discussion Sony RX100iii as aerial mapping camera
"Sorry, I never have tried the live connect with the remote control.  "
Apr 15, 2016
Joseph Douglas replied to Quan Le's discussion Drone topographical survey for agriculture in Africa - What have we done wrong? Business opportunity
"Hi Quan,
The Event38 Image Utility uses the CAM messages from the tlog in order to tag the images, so we do not run into the same problems typically seen by the time offset method, for instance.  The tlog uses its identification algorithm to match…"
Jan 5, 2016
Joseph Douglas replied to Nuno Fernades's discussion negative altitude landing
"I think you are correct in that you cannot use terrain following on the 2.6.  I think it is worth the upgrade to the Pixhawk to experience the full capabilities of Arduplane.  I think they have been watering down Arduplane for APM for a few…"
Dec 22, 2015
Joseph Douglas replied to Nuno Fernades's discussion negative altitude landing
"I don't discount using ASL, but I would think terrain following would end up being easier.  Then, you do not have to even think about it.  It is as if you are flying on a flat land.  Though it has its own limitations such as unavailable terrain…"
Dec 22, 2015
Joseph Douglas replied to Nuno Fernades's discussion negative altitude landing
"Hello,
This looks like a job for terrain following...
http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-terrain-following/"
Dec 22, 2015
Joseph Douglas commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Testing laser rangefinders with ArduPlane
"Tridge,

Appreciate you taking the time!  I am going to give it a shot.  I will reach out to the folks at LightWare and find out what I can do to help!  

Thanks as well to you Jacko for your notes!"
Oct 1, 2015
Joseph Douglas replied to Alexander's discussion Help Needed with Geotagging Photos without timestamps
"Check out the Image Utility download, as well as the wiki for using it.  You can find them both through here.  Hopefully that will help...
https://www.event38.com/Articles.asp?ID=270"
Oct 1, 2015
Joseph Douglas commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Testing laser rangefinders with ArduPlane
"Good point Jacko.  I am posting a DF and a tlog.  The tlog covers a few DF.  I attached the biggest section of the DF.  

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzMHMxXUaHQfZk9yMExmeVlnb3c..."
Oct 1, 2015
Joseph Douglas commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Testing laser rangefinders with ArduPlane
"Hello,
I am having an issue with this.  Many times it works perfectly.  On occasion the height is read improperly and the plane flares.  I know this as a message was added to tell me when the plane had entered the flare stage.  The sonarrange…"
Sep 30, 2015
Joseph Douglas commented on Beatriz Palmeiro's blog post Users feedback report around GCS software investigation
"This looks like a great report!  My only qualm is the sample size.  If we could expand, that would be awesome! "
Sep 30, 2015
Joseph Douglas replied to climr's discussion Integrated camera options, what is out there?
"Samsung NX500 for high resolution.  "
Sep 19, 2015
Joseph Douglas replied to Shawn McCracken's discussion Sony RX100iii as aerial mapping camera
"You could take a look at the Samsung NX500 (28 MP)"
Sep 16, 2015
Joseph Douglas posted a discussion
Hello Everyone,I am using Mission Planner 1.3.30.  When I change the units to ft and go into the Survey (Grid) I notice that the mission parameters are still apparently calculated based on meters.  So 100m gives me the same number of paths,…
Jun 19, 2015
Joseph Douglas replied to Keith whitehead's discussion Ardrucopter firmware 3.2.1 no logs
"It's probably easiest if I just make it a button on the DF tab under the HUD.  I should have it uploaded by the end of the day.  You can download it here...  http://www.event38.com/Articles.asp?ID=270"
Feb 19, 2015
Joseph Douglas replied to Keith whitehead's discussion Ardrucopter firmware 3.2.1 no logs
"That's tough luck Keith.  I recently ran into some strange issues myself.  Even as strange as not being able to delete my old logs.  In the end I performed a direct command to delete all the logs.  I think there could be some hold up before the…"
Feb 18, 2015
Joseph Douglas commented on Gerard Toonstra's blog post Lumix CM1 camera, a step up in quality for surveys?
"How do the optics compare to the NX Mini (which is much cheaper)?  "
Jan 6, 2015
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