Recent content by Tom O'Reilly

Thank you BigAl07. We've been flying surveys over the ocean for several months now. We're looking for jellies, fish, plankton and other biota near the surface - hence the effort to minimize specular glint and sky reflection. Until recently we didn't try very hard to fly closely along the solar...

We are flying surveys over the ocean using a fixed-wing UAV with Sony RX1RII camera pointed at nadir. We want to minimize sun glint and sky reflection in our imaging. Following NASA guidelines we often (not always) fly survey lines directly toward or away from the Sun, and we generally fly when...