Recent content by AMann

Cool, thanks! OP: if it bogs down, try combining small sections or rows first then combine those resulting images. I used to do megapixel processing with ICE and doing this really helped. It’s not perfect, but it’s great in the ability to combine large numbers of images.

Microsoft ICE could handle it for a 2D project if it is still available. I have it installed but lost the original download zip file. You might find a archival copy online.

Sorry about that, hope it works out with insurance. If they have the serial numbers, can DJI lock them remotely? Get a Harbor Freight or similar driveway monitor and leave the transmitter on or in your vehicle - I put a magnet on mine and stick it on the side when I park on a street. It...

Ansu is also paring up with Aloft for the flight controller software, not DJI’s, so maybe it will be secure.

If they get Blue Sky certification. It will open up lower equipment costs for start ups that want to get contracts to do mapping projects on DOD and other government lands. The only other quality alternatives now are a lot more expensive.

Wow, very close call. Good warning also. I still think the ending could have been better if a big ‘ol yellowfin took it down into the water! 😉

https://www.therobotreport.com/anzu-robotics-launches-u-s-based-clone-of-dji-mavic-3/

The good side of drones helping wildlife: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/july-august-2014/drones-take-wildlife-conservation-tool And the bad… https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2021/06/07/drone-crash-abandoned-eggs/ What it really takes is an educated person to do this, as the general...

Rhetorical statement or really want references? The science of how drones can affect wildlife is proven and factual, and they do diminish natural and wilderness quality for most people, that’s why open-space nature parks are prohibiting them.

Litchi mission? Looks nice and it was spot on the flight path for each sequence.

Just a little dated, but this thread is a very good guide for new and a refresher for both US pilots and others... Bumping it as a useful thread found deep in the MP archives. It could use a bit of editing and link updates, but there’s some good info here. Thanks Scott!

Joel- if you can, it would be worth more for her if someone untethered the DJI account on his drone before selling it, else it’s only worth parts.

Sold my goggles to him, hope they weren’t ‘too’ helpful for the new business! 🤔

It was especially unnerving when someone flew their drone around me while I was monitoring mine in the middle of a mapping mission. I tried ignoring it, waving friendly towards it and pointing at my drone just as a friendly goodby, but then finally had to track the pilot down and go over to...

The only time I shoot vertical is for still photographs or for overlapping panorama sequences when I’d like to show both ground and sky. Sometimes it would be nice to do the same with a drone, but mine can’t do it. I never shoot videos in vertical format though, nor would I do it with a drone...