Commercial use of drones in farms and other agriculture

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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. 

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  • 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;

    3702050249?profile=originalFive channels are used at the same time; band 1 = blue, band 2 - green,

    band 3 = red, band 4 = red edge and band 5 = NIR

    3702050113?profile=originalProcessing is done in the cloud using "Atlas", MicaSense's own services;

    3702050354?profile=originalYou 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.

  • Nice work
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    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.

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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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Open Source Drone Payload Project Supporting In-Flight AI

I'm leading a project to develop a completely open source system for deploying artificial intelligence and computer vision on a drone. We are trying to make the system as general purpose as possible, but one application would be supporting precision agricultural. The real-time, in-flight processing aspects of the payload are probably less interesting for precision AG, but the data collection and curation capabilities might be. We are getting started with a few specific missions, we are…

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