My first post here, and I'm going to hype my company and its products. I hope you will go easy on me - I'm assured that what we make is of interest to the DIY Drones community!
My company, DRS Technologies, manufactures a small Infrared Thermal camera called the Tamarisk 320.
The camera has a resolution of 320x240, is smaller than a golfball, weighs less than 35g and consumes <1W of power.
For the past couple of years we have run the DRS Student Infrared Imaging Competition. The SIIC is an open-format, incentive prize competition for students who use thermal infrared imaging in a creative way. The top project wins $10,000. For this, the competition’s second year, there is an additional prize category for “Most Viral Video.” This year DRS received 25 entries, of which 17 include a video for the viral competition.
Videos range from art projects to drone projects, and all kinds of odd and novel topics in between...
The viral video playlist is available at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc9AEfe3kcGNiY5cPHvHijawse791...
...and competition details are available at:
http://www.drsinfrared.com/studentcomp.aspx
Let me know what you think.
Regards,
Daniel
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For some, the size is a consideration (small that is). I
've used 640x420 15fps thermal cams (TAU) and they are ok but not fantastic at altitude. A good lens and a really good stabilised gimbal would have made my platform much nicer and usable.
Also, a on board recorder would have been good at 720 or even a still captured image function would be fantastic.(video downstream is too grainy when at the fringe of flight range). Post analyzing hot spots on powerpoles or counting animals/ warm bodies after the flight would make my job easier.
The French are... Actually even more than the US...
Inside the EU you can normally bring e.g. NV-technology from one country to another without problems. Same goes for thermal imaging technology as long as it's not in some military targeting device, like a thermal sniper scope. But in France, even NV-technology (image intensifiers) are considered weapons technology and require insane export paperwork.
From a colleague who worked at a sister company, I got the hint to look to Eastern Europe. He said, there would be new manufacturers of bolometer cameras which are of acceptable quality, cheap and uncomplicated to obtain. Haven't found those yet, though...
@StefanGofferje
There is a manufacturer in France doing high-res micro-bolometers, Ulis. Sadly they do sensors only, not cameras, but they have really neat chips:
http://www.ulis-ir.com/index.php?infrared-detector=17--m-640x480
They're affiliated with a well-known French microelectronics research center, so I suppose they have their own patents and do no depend on FLIR. No idea on the price, and if European export-control authorities are as dogmatic and conservative as US ones.
I am also interested, the specs of the project are as follow:
Height 50 ... 100m
Ground speed: 30 .. 50 km/h
Size of the objects: 100mm ... 300mm (ideally of course)
What would be the product for this?
Good Luck John, we all need it
Hey guys I'm heading back out to china again next month(shenzhen for my job). I'm going to be on the hunt for these. I have the address of Pathfindir headquarters, not from from SEG. I'll update this thread with what I find.
I am in the Himalayas, (Bhutan, India, Nepal)... good god, the paperwork we had to go through to get ours
HK :( it is going to be
Looks good; ideal form factor, better than my Guardsman. But can you export it at a reasonable price? Or will we OCONUS folks have to wait for HK to come out with one.
Are you in Melbourne?
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