Ok I’m intrigued about this mod
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That project has been under development for sometime, and it looks like a great SAR solution for rapid deployment or Deputy serving open territory carries as gear.
If interested reach out to “ io390 “ the developing shop on the Mavic forum.
One of several threads touching on development.
Mavic 2 Enterprise thermal camera parameters
Hi I want to use the thermal camera for mapping someone knows whats the thermal camera parameters that needs to insert in the gspro app (or any other mapping app). couldnt find it ib the drone manual. sorry for the bad screenshot. thanks!
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Are you able to or who will be the point of contact to make these kind of modifications on a mavic pro 2 zoom? I´d love to have something like that!
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Double the resolution of M2ED. The cheapest 640 resolution sensors are another $2500 minimum.
This Boson 320 is still hugely effective for SAR work and vastly better than the Lepton in the M2ED. Not as good as an M210/XT2 for sure, but that's over three times the price (and M210s have a habit of falling out of the sky).
Agreed, is better resolution than the M2ED but still far from optimum. There's no free lunch in the thermal resolution game.
Absolutely, but "optimum" for SAR use would be a Skyranger costing 100 grand plus, or better yet a helicopter with a cooled sensor. Everything is a trade off, so we've tried to fill the gap between M2ED and M210. The tradeoff of it being less than 1/3rd the price of and M210 is no MSX or radiometry. Being under double the price of the M2ED, we gain a far more powerful camera that allows you to make out features (instead of just blobs on the M2ED) and you can detect a human up to 900 feet away, vs about 200ft on the M2ED, even less with a cluttered background or an urban environment.
One problem with M2ED is that the Lepton sensor is designed for use in low cost, low end thermal applications (such as the FLIR One mobile phone camera) so it tries to make up for the lack of resolution by using the MSX enhancement with a visual light camera. This works to a fashion but the MSX doesn't work when the visual light camera can't see, such as at night or through fog. Most M2ED owners that we've spoken to have used it a couple of times and then it sits collecting dust, as the thermal capability is basically worthless for SAR use.
"Everything is a trade off, so we've tried to fill the gap between M2ED and M210. " WE? Are you involved with this product? Full disclosure is important for the people reading your comments, I would think...
Yes, Drone Doctor is the sister company to Revolve Drones (this has been mentioned in the various articles online and also on the Revolve Drones website).
Also see post #5 on this very thread.
I do apologise if it was not clear enough, in hindsight I did not explicitly state my involvement.
There have been a number of incidents in the UK, most of which were down to problems with battery firmware, which has now been solved. There have also been problems with people flying them in rain and M210s are certainly not weatherproof. This has caused corrosion on some ESC units which caused more M210s to fail in flight.
Something like 10-20 failures in the UK.
