doktor_the

Hey man, I had a wild idea the other day while building a quadcopter. The plan was to mount an FLIR camera onto it along with a regular camera -> map out my uncle's farmland. This will also be combined with IR data to show the irrigation levels of soil BUT I also wanted to use it to find critters and animals that roam into it at night. These things are really cheap to build but the FLIR camera is a bit costly.

So my thought was to use the FLIR camera to detect heat signatures at night and do a flyby in "interesting" areas -> classified by moving heat signatures, a bright spot with more than a defined radius etc. Since you basically do this with a airplane, how reliable are those cameras at night and from an altitude of say 500-800 meters? Have you used anything like this before?

p.s. How much latency do you get to Google from that satellite link?

Yeah the flight time is pretty much under an hour at max for quadcopters but I've seen people on YouTube flying trainers for hours and ranges up to 5km, I'm just starting at this hobby so there's that :D

Thanks for your reply and all the best for you and the team.

I remember watching your video, it was really cool to see how you could map the reflections of something and capture the image.

Probably a stupid question - can you shoot it in 3D, like how you shoot a normal 3D video?