While conducting a Search and Rescue mission, an unexpected heat signature showed up.

[jaja6009]

Earlier today, we were conducting a SAR as part of a mutual aid response. A heat signature caught my eye, but upon closer examination it was a deer in the bay marsh. A fat little guy too.

The RGB camera could not see the deer until it was only 20 feet AGL.

Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced Split Mode




RGB


Thermal of above RGB




Unfortunately we did not find the missing person.


This drone performs SAR very well.

 

[Phantomrain.org]

Very cool,. Hard to believe we cannot see the deer in the middle picture.
This is the best example I have seen posted .

Phantomrain.org
Gear to fly your Mavic 2 Enterprise in the Rain/snow.

 

[db4476]

Very Interesting!

 

[jaja6009]

The images were too large to post. One thing I do not like about the aircraft is that the 48 MP images are very large in size. This increases time for photogrammetry and I personally do not feel that they are that much better than the camera on the Enterprise Zoom at 12MP. The Advanced's images can be 12-19 MB and the Zoom 4 to 10 MB. You also can only use Auto for camera settings. My Enterprise Zoom has a much more robust camera settings menu and also has a Hyperlight mode that can take a decent low light image.

I am hoping for firmware to solidify the Advanced a little bit more.

Link to images in Google Drive

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The aircraft takes both an RGB and thermal image, so the first image is RGB followed by a thermal, except where there is the split screen shot. There are also some thermal images of solar panel arrays and roof moisture scans.

We flew an Autel Evo 2 Dual (Non-radiometric) as well and between the two there was no clear cut winner. Both aircraft had pros and cons. The Autel's Intelligent Flight modes were pretty handy as the Orbit proved to be pretty useful. Either one makes a very good SAR solution. It is really cool that there are a decent amount of 320 and 640 thermal solutions on small aircraft.

 

[slozukimc]

Very cool,. Hard to believe we cannot see the deer in the middle picture.
This is the best example I have seen posted .

Phantomrain.org
Gear to fly your Mavic 2 Enterprise in the Rain/snow.

Have you ever been deer hunting? Those suckers can hide mere feet away from you.

Mike