Commercial use of drones in farms and other agriculture

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  • New article about precision farming (in french)here: https://altidrone.ch/2015/11/26/agritechnica-2015-drones-et-agricul...

    Agritechnica 2015: drones et agriculture?
    Point de vue sur l'utilité des drones dans l'agriculture actuelles. Les paysans futurs pilotes de drones?
  • Oops, sorry I meant a Spade, which is a scaled up Z3...to a coincidentally 70" wingspan.

    http://www.ritewingrc.com/prod-1.html

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  • http://www.troybuiltmodels.com/items/RF70.html

    Yikes that's quite the mark up or quite the great promotional offer.

  • It's more of a scaled up Z3.

  • Is that a ritewing zephyr? I swear that is the exact design. I hope Chris at Ritewing is involved in that company, he designed an incredible airframe, those bays and choro design are his signature, i'd recognize it anywhere! 

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    Thanks Shaun. That's what I was trying to do this morning, but it didn't seem very intuitive to me. I was in a hurry, though .I'll try again when I get back home.
  • Yes, but don't bother with more than 3.  Adding more questionable points isn't going to help. 

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    I was just planning on using the GPS data from Google earth and adding it to the mosaic, if possible. Doesn't need to be super accurate, just enough to properly orient the results.

    Do you just select a point in the raycloud and add the GPS data (7 times), and then re optimise?
  • How accurate?  If accuracy isn't that important, just take out a hand held gps and mark at lest three points you can see in the point cloud.  Then import those to GCP's.

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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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What are the impacts of agricultural drones on the agricultural development of various countries?

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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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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