Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Small UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) ...

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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