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Remote Sensing of Potato Crops
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All Points Blog link to a AP article about unmanned remote-controlled aircraft that transmits digital video and aerial photographs of fields to farmers to help spot weed, pest and watering problems. From the article: ""For many years, the accepted practice was to rent an airplane and fly over the fields or go buy big blocks of satellite imagery, which takes a month to get the data back," said Curt Pengelly of Simplot Agribusiness, the company that designed and built the craft, which looks like a large radio-controlled model airplane. "We've developed this remotely piloted vehicle as a low-cost way to get an instant snapshot back to the crop adviser and grower.""
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The Maps Room links to an open source quadrocopter project which allows you to acquire aerial imagery at low cost. From the site: "The OSQ ( Open Source Quattrocopter) is a remote controlled, partly autonomously flying four-rotor flight-unit, which can be adjusted to the user requests .
So that UAV - construction is absolutely modular and unique.
Due to the electronic positioning control-unit this extremely light and quiet flight platform is applicable without previous helicopter operating experience.
The airborne OSQ will be controlled like a common helicopter with helicommand assistance.
If there´s no pilot-command - OSQ keeps flightlevel and -direction . When GPS is activated the position too." See previous related stories below.
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