About

Gender

Male


Location

New South Wales


About Me:

Work in aerial survey and remote sensing


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Flown RC aircraft as a kid, looking at possibilities for remote sensing and mapping


Hometown:

Sydney


Activity Feed

Salad Dodger posted a discussion in ArduBoat User Group
Hello allI have played around with fixed-wing drones before but am new to boats. I am looking to build a simple boat for the purpose of inspecting a heavily timbered section of river that it is hard to get a manned boat into and am looking for some…
Jun 20, 2023
Salad Dodger posted a discussion
Howdy All,I have been working on a small blog about remote sensing and airborne survey. It has a focus on UAV remote sensing, and general trends in the airborne survey industry. Its a work in progress, and I will be adding new content regularly. If…
Nov 16, 2016
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Pixhawk in a Cessna 172 (old fashioned manned aircraft)
"Thanks Herman, we used to use a crop dusting bar in geophysics flying. When you are only 60m above the ground at 130kts its handy if the pilot is looking outside! I find young pilots like a screen to help guide them onto the line. I am going to give…"
Jun 5, 2016
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Pixhawk in a Cessna 172 (old fashioned manned aircraft)
"Thanks for the replies guys, I will try this out in the Cessna 172 in the next few weeks and let you know how it goes."
Jun 1, 2016
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Pixhawk in a Cessna 172 (old fashioned manned aircraft)
"Marcus, this would not help me as I may have to ferry 100 nm to a project site. If I am taking a photo every 70m that adds up to a shite load of photos, before I even start the survey. For manned survey you simply need the camera to trigger at…"
May 30, 2016
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Pixhawk in a Cessna 172 (old fashioned manned aircraft)
"Ok then it is going to be a no for me as I wanted to do it the old fashioned way and have pre-planned trigger points. As the pixhawk would have no servos connected could I run it in auto and still fly the aircraft manually, and have it trigger the…"
May 19, 2016
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Pixhawk in a Cessna 172 (old fashioned manned aircraft)
"Andre I did not want to use the trigger by distance function. I wanted to create a survey grid, and then fly the grid manually using mission planner for navigation assistance as you mention. So I think you have answered the question but if I fly a…"
May 18, 2016
Salad Dodger posted a discussion
All,One out of the ordinary, Will the Pixhawk fire a camera in manual mode? If I plan a survey grid in mission planner and then fly down the runs in a manned aircraft will the pixhawk trigger the camera at the planned photo events?In reply please…
May 16, 2016
Salad Dodger replied to Mark Brown's discussion Agisoft Photoscan vs Pix4uav
"Yes Agisoft does generate a mosaic but again the problem for us is that it is a mostly automated process and the operator has no control over cut line placement. We had a script written which allows each frame to be exported as an individual ortho…"
May 9, 2014
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Advice on Medium Sized UAV
"Yes we did look at the mavinci but we found $70k Australian a bit hard to justify. It looks like Eagle bait to me and I doubt mavinci will be happy to hand over another one if it gets nailed by an eagle on its first flight? Also most mine areas in…"
Apr 10, 2014
Salad Dodger replied to Mark Brown's discussion Agisoft Photoscan vs Pix4uav
"We evaluated both about a year ago for processing data out of our manned aircraft. We found Agisoft to be the better package for us as it allows more user interaction in the triangulation process and DEM/DSM editing. The version of Pix4D we trailed…"
Apr 9, 2014
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Advice on Medium Sized UAV
"Yes unfortunately a number of people here in Australia have already found this out. Certain UAV manufactures have been promising the world over here but not delivering. We are getting a steady trickle of work with our manned aircraft from clients…"
Apr 9, 2014
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Advice on Medium Sized UAV
"Our client is after high accuracy mapping for an initial site survey for mining operations and requires accurate photo centres and a metric camera. Normally we would use our manned survey aircraft (C172) with a 39 or 80 mpxl camera and DGPS photo…"
Apr 8, 2014
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Advice on Medium Sized UAV
"This could be an option for us but timing is tight we may be interested in a pre-production aircraft. How is it launched ?
Cheers
Erron"
Apr 8, 2014
Salad Dodger replied to Salad Dodger's discussion Advice on Medium Sized UAV
"It looks like a good UAV and if I could squirrel a bigger camera (24mpxl) in there is may be suitable. The project I have to fly is around 450 line kilometres with a 24 mpxl camera so every megapixel counts. 
I was thinking a bigger air frame which…"
Apr 6, 2014
Salad Dodger posted a discussion
Howdy All I've been a list lurker for a while and I have to say I’m quite impressed with the projects on this site. Any way I thought I would open the account by asking for some advice on a medium sized UAV project. I've been asked if I can fly a…
Apr 3, 2014
More…