SenseFly eBee: Survey and Mapping Drone Flies Autonomously

The Roswell Test Flight Crew met with a number of corporations whereas attending the Future Farm Drone Rodeo in Portland. In this episode, the Roswell Flight Test Crew hears from Gary Licquia of RDO Integrated Controls concerning the SenseFly eBee: a fixed-wing platform that flies solely utilizing autonomous, waypoint-driven missions. The plane is linked to a laptop computer laptop through a radio modem. A SenseFly software program package deal referred to as eMotion permits the consumer to plot a course for the plane, in addition to giving it real-time instructions, if wanted. The eBee is appropriate with interchangeable payloads for numerous distant sensing purposes. In this instance, it carries a Parrot Sequoia NDVI sensor, to find out the well being of crops on agricultural land. Launching the eBee is so simple as shaking it thrice and then throwing it into the air.

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