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StitchCAM—Revolutionary Drone for the Ag Industry on Kickstarter

Posted by SNAP Vision Technologies LLC on July 7, 2014 at 7:00am

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Just wanted to share the launch of the StitchCAM on Kickstarter.  The StitchCAM is a revolutionary new multispectral camera drone that simultaneously provides full color images and NIR data.  Now every farmer/greens keeper/developer can have NDVI on tap at the push of a button. View StitchCAM Kickstarter for more information

Much thanks to everyone here and to the DroidPlanner and Pixhawk/PX4 teams, without all your hard work this would not have been possible.

Tags: ag, agriculture, crop, multispectral, stitchcam, vineyard
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  • SNAP Vision Technologies LLC July 7, 2014 at 6:22pm

    Dan - We believe in follow line of site operating limits (from our experience that is ~40 acres).  When set for Ag flight settings, our system is designed to cover the full line of site area on a single battery.  Once your done with your first 40 acres, swap batteries and fly as many acres as you want.

    Phil - All great questions.  As with anything in the optics/engineering world, this is not an easy answer.  I will share what I can.  Our imager collects data from ~400-~950nm.  As for resolution, we have seen many inflated specs so we chose to highlight actual images in our video (note the track marks from the dozer in the construction example).  As for processing, it is done on the provided tablet (optimization work is in progress with a goal of <10 min processing time).  Shadow/row algorithms and output formats are all application specific. For more information regarding your application, email us some more details at info@snapvt.com.  

  • Developer
    Randy July 7, 2014 at 5:41pm

    A great use of multicopters!  Best of luck!

  • Phil Ellerbroek July 7, 2014 at 11:28am
    What nm band is the camera? What megapixel? What resolution at 400 feet? How long does it take to process 50 acres at max resolution and what suggested computing power? What is max flight time and wind knots for operation? How does your software account and correct shadow effect for proper ndvi on row crops? Are your images plan a metrically correct? Do your produced images include shape files for actual farmer use via machinery integration? Do you have agriculture test data that I could look at ( raw images and then an ortho)
  • Developer
    Arthur Benemann July 7, 2014 at 9:39am

    @SNAP: Thanks, I haven't noticed, just making sure the rules are applied. It's great to have more people working with the code.

    Here is the fork link if someone wants to take a look:

    https://github.com/StitchTAP/droidplanner

    StitchTAP/droidplanner
    Ground Control Station for Android Devices. Contribute to StitchTAP/droidplanner development by creating an account on GitHub.
  • Dan Murray July 7, 2014 at 9:33am

    Very cool. I am curious what type of area it can cover - it seems that traditionally, fixed-wing platforms can get longer flight times for aerial survey.

  • SNAP Vision Technologies LLC July 7, 2014 at 9:31am

    Arthur

    We are happy to share, we couldn't have done this without you and your team.  We have had it posted on GitHub since April under the user name StitchTAP (forked directly from DroidPlanner).  If there is anything else you would like us to do, we would be happy to, just let us know.

  • Developer
    Arthur Benemann July 7, 2014 at 8:24am

    Just as a refresher: DroidPlanner is GPLv3 licensed, meaning that you are required to release the modified source code under the same license.

    Quoting from the Kickstarter page:

    It’s an adaptation of the open source DroidPlanner project and has been optimized to isolate the functionality you need to get the job done.

    And some F.A.Q. about GPL:

    ModifiedJustBinary

    DistributeExtendedBinary

    gnu.org
  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson July 7, 2014 at 8:10am

    Love it -- another Pixhawk/DroidPlanner based Kickstarter project! Backed..

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