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Open Source Unmanned Aerial Vehicule Data Acquisition
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from the open-source-hardware-comes-to-geospatial dept.
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The Maps Room links to an open source quadrocopter project which allows you to acquire aerial imagery at low cost. From the site: "The OSQ ( Open Source Quattrocopter) is a remote controlled, partly autonomously flying four-rotor flight-unit, which can be adjusted to the user requests .
So that UAV - construction is absolutely modular and unique.
Due to the electronic positioning control-unit this extremely light and quiet flight platform is applicable without previous helicopter operating experience.
The airborne OSQ will be controlled like a common helicopter with helicommand assistance.
If there´s no pilot-command - OSQ keeps flightlevel and -direction . When GPS is activated the position too." See previous related stories below.
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Unmanned Airborne Video Surveillance
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Directions Mag have an article about airborne video surveillance. From the article's introduction: "Real-time video images and videos have become an increasingly important source of information for remote surveillance, intelligence gathering, situational awareness, and decision-making. With airborne video surveillance, the ability to associate geospatial information with imagery intelligence allows decision makers to view the geographic context of the situation, track and visualize events as they unfold, and predict possible outcomes as the situation develops." The Surveying, Mapping and GIS blog has an entry about this booming market.
Application Domains: Remote Sensing of Potato Crops
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All Points Blog link to a AP article about unmanned remote-controlled aircraft that transmits digital video and aerial photographs of fields to farmers to help spot weed, pest and watering problems. From the article: ""For many years, the accepted practice was to rent an airplane and fly over the fields or go buy big blocks of satellite imagery, which takes a month to get the data back," said Curt Pengelly of Simplot Agribusiness, the company that designed and built the craft, which looks like a large radio-controlled model airplane. "We've developed this remotely piloted vehicle as a low-cost way to get an instant snapshot back to the crop adviser and grower.""
Application Domains: Unmanned Aircraft to Map Forest Fires 1 comment
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The Map Room links to a CNET article about Altair, an unmanned aircraft to map forest fires. From the article: "The Altair will be loaded with NASA's sensor system, AMS (Autonomous Modular System)-Wildfire. The AMS-Wildfire system can determine temperature differences from 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit to as little as half a degree, according to NASA. Being able to distinguish temperatures is important when it comes to mapping the movement of wildfires."
Low-Cost Aerial Imagery Acquisition 1 comment
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The Google Earth Blog links to an interesting new small unmanned remote control aerial vehicle with a digital camera used to capture images and then show the images in Google Earth. The short video clearly explains the power and simplicity of this new device. From the blog: "This technology could be a much less expensive way to acquire very-high-res data for certain situations - particularly for special events." Related, All Points Blog links to a story on GeoCam: "High altitude balloons can be deployed in a matter of hours and provide emergency remote sensing thereby enabling first responder's situational awareness and give adequate trajectories to rescuers."
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