Commercial use of drones in farms and other agriculture
Hexa with Hobbywing X8 motors
Hii am building a hexacopter with1.) hobbywing x8 motors2.) flight controller pixhawk PX53.) battery 12s 22Ah4.) wheel base of around 1800mm5.) estimated weight around 17kg without payloadi am looking if anyone has already tuned this type so i can get a head start. looking forwardthank youMike
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Has anyone seen this before? Using a canons100 with Kap uav 3.2, and the issue has been getting worse and worse.
I don't know if it's an issue with shutterspeed or something, but I've been getting more and more solid black spots in the middle of surveys.
Hi Keith, I see that MicaSense costs about $6,450/- . Do you find it worth? I am relatively new to NDVI
Nice Map! Where is a good resource in finding what the highs and lows of each band mean as far as real life application. ie what would .55 on NDVI mean to a farmer?
Sorry for the radio silence, but its busy, busy, busy! I wanted to share my first NDVI image using the RedEdge camera from MicaSense;
Five channels are used at the same time; band 1 = blue, band 2 - green,
band 3 = red, band 4 = red edge and band 5 = NIR
Processing is done in the cloud using "Atlas", MicaSense's own services;
You can produce, RGB composites with 3 bands or band-to-band raster calculations for NDVI / GRVI / NDRE and get a Digital Surface Model too!
I will post more about this summers work in the autumn / winter, when I have had time to test things out and write up my findings.
Does anyone know what kind of hand held Tablet device the Sensefly guys use with the eBee? Its gotta be something quite powerful if it processes images in real time
First Ever IDC sanctioned Drone Event for farmers June 13, 2015 Central IA
Go to www.dronesharks.org or go to farm Drone Event and workshops on 3 farms
If anyone needs a simple & inexpensive method to setup a telemetry connection over 4G, I wrote a free guide http://www.4gmetry.com/ and created a dedicated group http://diydrones.com/group/4gmetry. S.
Finished Map from Sunday afternoon flight my Skywalker 2013 w/ Pixhawk FC mapping 446 acres in 41 min. Flight was at 100m at 15 m/s taking a photo every 2.4 seconds for 975 pictures. Average GSD is 3.5cm/ 1.4in. Camera S100 Processing time 6hours 3 - 5 hours on Maps Made Easy
Finished map
Wings of Technology
Hi Robert,
A SkyWalker2013 with Sony NEX5N 16mm lens mounted in a 2D gimbal. Controlled by a 3DR PixHawk, 433MHz Mavlink radio and FrSky Taranis Tx & X8R Rx.