Re: [Paparazzi-devel] platform for agricultural multispectral imaging?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

Too many choices ;)

What I really liked about the ARdrone was the hardware integration, and that
there's a linux kernel running on it. 

I saw a demo of the Quadshot (thequadshot.com), and I'm quite impressed, and
thinking the best way to go might be to strap one of these to the bottom:

http://www.alfa.com.tw/in/front/bin/ptdetail.phtml?Part=AIPC120M&Category=106193

... but then I don't quite have a clue where I'd start to to the multispectral
hacking. At this point I think I just want to fly the camera and record
1280x1024 video and then see if it's usefull for determining if I need to 
actually walk out and pull weeds.

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 10:11:12AM +1000, Chris Gough wrote:
> Hi Troy
> 
> check this out:
> 
> http://mechatronics.ece.usu.edu/yqchen/paper/08/08C30_igarss_4051FinalPaper.pdf
> 
> Some things have moved on a bit since then, but the "hackeds cam
> packed a foam wing" approach is probably a good place to start.
> 
> Chris Gough
> 
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Troy Benjegerdes <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'd like to find out what sort of configurations (airframes, camers, etc)
> > other paparazzi users have used for multispectral imaging. I've got a farm
> > and for what it would cost me to get a single satellite image, I could put
> > together quite a nice RC/uav setup with a camera.
> >
> > I've played with an ARdrone1 a little bit, but the ultrasonic altitude
> > sensor gets kinda confused by 5 foot tall corn, and the built-in camera
> > resolution is pretty low.
> >
> > I might be interested in hacking an ARdrone2.0, and pointing the HD camera
> > toward the ground, but only if I can get Paparrazi running on it instead of
> > the stock firmware.
> >
> > Any other thoughts, or comments from someone who's done this?
> >
> >
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Troy Benjegerdes                 'da hozer'                address@hidden  
7 elements Farm                                         TerraCarbo biofuels

An Engineer is a man who can do for a dime what any fool can do for a dollar.
-anonymous

If you're going through hell, keep going. ~ Winston Churchill

The challenge in changing the world is not in having great ideas, it's in
having stupid simple ideas, as those are the ones that cause change.