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Recent content by Peter Syson

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    Inspire v Phantom for mapping

    Good morning or whatever! Use I1 version 1, capture with Maps Made Easy because any change in battery is auto fly home and returns to where it left off. Then using pix4 for processing. Having real issues adding GCPs due to differing geo systems. Pix 4 auto recognise WGS 84 but GCP and output...
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    Bridge Inspection

    Dear Irish Sights Thank you for your suggestion. We already do survey using Pix 4d on a 3dr octo...so the question is can we use a mesh of photographs to measure from a copter in close proximity...? the size of the hairline fractures are down to 0.15mm! Just of the top of my head! The work flow...
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    Bridge Inspection

    Mate your sick f####k off
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    Bridge Inspection

    Sorry Carlsberg I think you misunderstand me. I have a head torch mounted on the copter, a couple of thousand lumens, with rechargeable lipos. They light up areas 100 m distance. But for the photographs I use a camera with a flash.
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    Bridge Inspection

    Hi Carlsberg Allot of LED lights arnt bright enough for me, so we use a camera with flash Cheers
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    Bridge Inspection

    Dear Laisui Hmm measuring hairline and other cracks, this is very difficult especially using visual aids on a moving platform.not sure about the stereo vision method, the abstract doesn't say it's on a UAV. My next move, if we go to actual measuring would be to look at lasers with a well...
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    Australia G'Day from Australia

    Ray, Google casa operations manual and drugs and alcohol manual. There are some draft ones you will need to edit and simplify. They are drafted for larger organisations. Cheers
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    Bridge Inspection

    Yes of course thanks for the heads up/reminder Cheers
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    Bridge Inspection

    Dear Outta Control The purpose was just a video I put together for the client. It accompanied the written report I prepared and the photographs of different parts of the bridge. I have been working on bridges ie filming for inspection purposes for two years. I am working with the Dept of...
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    Bridge Inspection

    Hahahah! Thank you
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    Bridge Inspection

    Oops sorry! I have an inspire as well.....does that count.....? Lol
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    Australia area approval

    Where is that Steven? Do I have to drag out my maps...lol
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    Bridge Inspection

    filmed in one take with a Phantom 3
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    Australia G'Day from Australia

    Paul, don't get me wrong, not negative....sky is the limit! Well 120m anyway Cheers
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    Australia G'Day from Australia

    Marketing pamphlets to real estates. Engineering companies show and tell. Same for local governments......just been a slow process...need to educate potential clients for survey and inspection. Difficult to recoup costs at the rates they want to pay! Like probably spent 30k + on stuff, two...