Recent content by AMann

I’ve worn national park service and forest service patches on my work uniforms before, and also was an environmental monitor on different projects for the forest service. It’s probable that a permit for commercial film shooting will be necessary and they do require a notification with the...

I do pole photography, I have several versions, including a 20-foot telescoping one it is actually designed as a flagpole sold at Amazon and harbor freight that I put my DSLR on. I was able to get “aerial” images at Joshua Tree National Park looking down at climbers and flowering Joshua trees...

I think the people that take these jobs have a dream of getting paid for doing something they really like. I get it. I also bought a metal detector that cost more than my drone to go get rich by finding gold with it. I am beginning to think it was the guy that sold it to me that was the one...

Wow, Allen got a good price! Try looking up some comparable stock footage prices as an example like this...

Update - the Sparkfun RTK Surveyor works very well - I bought 2 and use one as a base station. They are currently on sale for about $350 each this week. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/18443?gclid=Cj0KCQiA3uGqBhDdARIsAFeJ5r3EQfp-L6pXpq9N9_WvnnSFm21KeDmgyBys-zgHUXQOdrneLYbdOosaAsGzEALw_wcB

Try the large companies- look for them on Google and send a letter to their corporate offices that explains your needs and asks for advertising materials and display materials.

We were donated wildlife studies equipment for a small nature preserve museum - non-working telemetry radios and bat detectors- you’ll have to do the footwork, but try contacting drone manufacturers directly to see if they have any non-working models you could use for display, maybe you will...

I used to be a small museum director and was able to get nice donations of display items (not drones but just as expensive) from various manufacturers including one from Australia. They even sprang for shipping! Have you reached out to those? Some companies may have some drones that were...

This all depends on the type of project you’re working on. For the most accurate and most time-consuming project, you use a RTK enabled Drone along with ground control points (GCP’s) that are really just any type of marker you stake to the ground that you can see later on the aerial photos you...

When I tried doing it, it was a very local job so I didn’t think about expenses. But I made the mistake of not really thinking about all I was putting into it and it wouldn’t have been a sustainable business had I continued doing it. I was going to ask him if it at least paid for his gas.

if you are flying a Wi-Fi only drone it would be easy. Not sure that a DJI compatible repeater is currently available - unless you have a lot of R&D money to design and make one. Then there’s always Uncle Faa to deal with…

No free NTRIP here, plus I’m cheap and want the students to learn more so we just plug in base coordinates we get from Google Earth for a ground feature we can easily see on campus. It’s not exact, but it does demonstrate the concept to students. They are responsible for finding the coordinates...

14-feet of error for a non-corrected base plot is to be expected and would be that bad even with a expensive professional grade GPS system. RTK has two modes- “moving base” is when you don’t set the base on a known point- it has no way to know exactly where it is as there is no correction for...

I went out today to try it out with SWMaps. I tested it out by taking points along a 100-meter long tape. The system works really well and was very precise as the distances it recorded between each point along the tape were dead on within ~10mm. I was using the moving base method so the...

Update. The Sparkfun RTK Surveyors I got work well. I had to update the firmware in order to get the BLE Bluetooth function for my iPhone and iPad. SWMaps app looks very good for working with these units in RTK mode, and I was getting a horizontal accuracy of 14mm in RTK mode! Very happy with...