Small UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) under 10kg or 22 pounds are termed generally by our DoD as UAS (unmanned aerial sensor) offers our best now in Afghanistan and Iraq ad-hoc simple-to-use effective situational awareness. The model and scale airplane and helicopter community has been playing around with the use of model-cams for better than a half dozen years, some even provide near real time broadcast of what its eye in the sky is seeing. Well below is a one-and-a-half pounder that looks to me to punching very hard way above its weight class? This a recon tool not a real-time tool.
Very short but very cool demonstration of SwingFly at -
I have watched this emerging hobbyist appliance of the DoD UAS for a long time now waiting for something that could be valuable to precision aggies and their consultants for crop scouting reasons. Well I believe that moment has arrived with a Swiss entry named "Swinglet". Super easy to use, with automated track and camera controls (12mp frames), and plenty (Sufficient) of flight time. While the price at the moment is a bit occluded I would guess a kit with out the laptop would in the range of a couple thousand bucks. If so then a guy might be able to return their investment I would bet within a season if they charged the same rate per acre for other sources of crop overhead imagery?
SO take a gander of the Swinglet at http://www.sensefly.com/
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