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I would like to see a drone design which favours automatic battery changing: drained drone lands on some roof and a robotic arm removes the empty battery and inserts a fresh one in. The drained battery goes to charger and the drone takes off again. Simples if DJI designs the battery box on the...

I get it thanks.

It's an urban environment, small city, more or less rectangular grid of roads. The main avenues are 5 or 6 and stretch to max 4 km (2.5 miles). I only need to monitor along the main roads, I do not need to cover residential areas. It will be interesting to see how the legal and technology...

That's more or less what I want. Litchi sounds good. I did not understand (due to my english lang skills) what do you think about the robotic batery chargers. Do you think it is sci-fi or can happen or you did manage to create one? For one, I think the drone manufacturer can make this...

Racin8de, this is where I come from. Realtime (ok every 30,60 secs) Satellite images cost an arm and a leg if you they cover your area. Sure I can get one per 24h for free but i want to monitor traffic.

brett8883 that's great! Thanks! This is what I was looking to confirm. bw, a.

Thank you very much for the informative reply brett8883 and please pardon my ignorance and naivety. It's in an EU country but I now realise the red-tape is big. As a very newbie to this area, I can see that the idea is sound but there are a lot of things to sort out still. I am also aiming at...

Hi there, I am seeking advice regarding an application I have in mind. It is about monitoring road traffic using drones. What I am looking for is a drone capable to fly unsupervised along pre-set flight path, at fixed altitude and send my software a constant feed of photos of the street exactly...