Commercial use of drones in farms and other agriculture
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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
Read more…Agricultural drones have gone from being questioned by the market to being actively promoted by the government, from tens of thousands to thousands of dollars. Behind this is the rise of technology in the entire industry. However, the degree of promotion of agricultural drones varies greatly in different regions. What do you think of the application of agricultural drones in your country?https://youtu.be/TDTW9TsvjZw EFT agricultrul drone solution
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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
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
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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.
Nice work! Can you share some info on the system and flight specs?
Just completed processing of my first flight of this year, it feels good to get back outside in the sunshine!
I have worked with Headwall Photonics for a number of years as a supplier of high performance camera lenses. This camera, depending on accesories etc, can be any where from $40K for a very basic unit to over $100K.
Keep in mind this is very typical for a camera of this type. Add in specialized imaging sensors, such as sCMOS, SWIR, etc and they could run you over $150K.
Juan, you can email me direct at: kdbusto@vegatecgroup.com
I would be happy to sennd more info on what we are doing in FOPEN(Foliage Penetration).
Hi.
Michael: what is the price of that Headwall camera?
Vega Tech: I would like to get some info on the FOPEN project please.
Vega Tech, Thanks for the links. I look forward to looking into these systems.
There are UAV's much more powerful and larger than what is traditionally thought of as a UAV in the consumer market. Our experience has been primarily military, that is where our Sense & Avoid system is going.
Interesting you should mention wide area imaging. I am working on a satellite project at this time. The camera will actually be a full silicon wafer with 30 CMOS imagers on it. Each imager will have a specific spectral filter.
Combined Visible(380-680) & MWIR(3-5um) systems with fused imaging is big right now as well. Cloudcap division of Flir makes this type of system, as well Rafael in Israel.
I am familiar with the Microsoft Ultracam products. They use large format CCD's. I think around 90mp?
I think this CCD was originally developed for Astronomy? The sensor is cooled to -30C or so for very long exposures when used in Astronomy.
Finger Lakes Instruments makes some large format Astronomy cameras: www.flicamera.com
TeledyneDalsa makes large format imagers as well: www.teledynedalsa.com
Got the money, TeledyneDalsa will build you any size CCD sensor you want.
We do have COTS camera systems for the commercial market under $10K, but some run easily over $100K.
Again, my point here is that camera sensors & cameras are readily available that can image, get viable data, and not be hindered by issues with the available light and/or weather. Of course I would not recommend flying your UAV in the middle of a severe weather event.
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