Recent content by AMann

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.

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...

Thank you for sharing this, very glad you and your family are safe. Sounds like a thunderhead downdraft hit your location from the side. I’ve been desert camping when they’ve hit and they would have blown away our camp if we had not seen the dust clouds coming towards us from across the...

Great story. Also a lesson about knowing how to self-recover in a sea kayak if you go out in the ocean…

Is the shimmer from the sun and irregular edge of the moon or could it be from temperature differences and refraction of sunlight in our atmosphere when it and the land starts to cool off from the eclipse shadow itself?

Not to be a droner downer, but I also wanted to do the same things with my M2P back during the 2017 eclipse. My plan was also to fly it up high to catch the approaching shadow across the landscape while I took photos of it with my long-lens and DSLR. We had 2 minutes or so of totality back then...

After reading through the regulations all I have to say is things have surely changed there! My brother was probably one of the first tourists to fly a drone all over Pompeii and the guides and few tourists who were there all thought it was great. But it was probably because of too many...

Could it be that it is having issues with getting the elevation DEM data from Google Earth? I know in LVM that Namirda pays for a certain number of monthly DEM downloads for all of us to use, so could that have something to do with that? Or perhaps your virus protection settings are preventing...