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Flying a specially outfitted Cub, learning about ultra-high resolution #aerialimagery
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@snower13 2 года назад

Their imagery is 5 cm resolution. From commercial satellites you can buy 30 cm imagery--not 3 meters. It's limited by a treaty. Satellites are more economical if you don't need the ultra resolution and you want large areas covered. Satellites are also not subject to TFR (disaster areas) or airspace.

@willymekeel8483 2 года назад

You're correct, I misspoke when I said 3m. I meant to say 30cm....You're also correct in saying that satellite imagery can be more economical in some cases. Our product is different. We offer on-demand, highest-resolution imagery. Satellite imagery has limited temporal resolution and is restricted by weather. Recent studies have found that "on-demand" satellite imagery can be unavailable for multiple consecutive days due to cloud cover. The highest spatial resolution satellite imagery is of limited scale as well. It may take 4 or 5 scenes to cover a target site which can become costly....Aircraft can operate in TFR's with proper authorization. In fact, we collected millions of acres of imagery over wildfires covered by TFR's this year.

@snower13 2 года назад

@@willymekeel8483 All fair points. One is definitely not better than the other for all situations (except for aerial's better resolution). Clouds are an issue but if timeliness is needed, satellites can capture globally and in remote areas but aerial imagery service providers can't be everywhere. If speed of delivery is important, processing time generally favors satellites. Customers can get full resolution images of entire cities in ~6 hours after capture - no stitching needed. Once space laser comms are implemented, this will probably drop to 30 minutes or less. However, real time video of small areas is possible with aerial and not possible with satellites.

@FlightChops 2 года назад

snower13 - Great discussion here - I always appreciate it when the community helps add context or catches errors in the videos - it is very hard to be 100% accurate all the time.

@FirePilot2020 2 года назад

Many of us capturing imagery get over top of the TFRs. Most of my flights over wildfires are conducted that way and our resolution is still far finer than publicly available satellite, and utilizing manned aircraft allows for POI focus. The data handling can also be faster and more on demand if the assets are stationed strategically. Not to mention the endless possibilities with AI and machine learning.

@alexandermyrthue1987 2 года назад

@@FlightChops " it is very hard to be 100% accurate all the time" yeah that's impossible, but you and the team a doing a great job😊

@PacificAirwave144 2 года назад

And if you've never been by The Hood River airport and seen the Western Aviation and Automobile Museum there budget at least a full day! I've been there 6? times now and my legs have always shouted stop before I've wanted to. Old cars, motorcycles, airplanes...at-least a full day. I have no connection to the place other than being a pure Av-nut but the cars and stuff are mind-blowing! RV-it, get a motel and really give yourself two days there. Great picture logs on a lot of the rebuilds, several lines of old Model A's and T's --all original, That place is amazing! Two days, budget at least two days!

@NZ255 2 года назад

18:15 he's done that a few times. "Like a glove"

@Paughco 2 года назад

Nice lookin' lid, man!

@jonasbaine3538 2 года назад

Good job on pilot helmets. Most GA aircraft were designed long before crash safety was a real thought

@UshTheGreat 2 года назад

Videos like this are the sole reason this channel remains my favourite regarding aviation!

@andrewhenry1738 2 года назад

Gyroplane guy here from Ottawa - this would be a great application for gyro. Very low per hour cost, no wasted time in turns, short fields takeoff/landings.... too bad commercial use is not yet allowed in Canada.

@rmshivo 2 года назад

Karibu sana Kenya Steve. We'd love to see Flight Chops here!

@francisschweitzer8431 2 года назад

Hey Steve, this is probably one of the only RU-vid channels where I don’t mind a “PAID PLUG”…. Your videography and editing is far and above almost any other channel.

@GaryMCurran 2 года назад

Seriously cool stuff, Steve. Thanks for sharing this. One day, when I get enough money, I really would like to do Patreon for a lot of RU-vidrs. Maybe one day. In the meantime, I hope you can get to Africa soon.

@cub6zt 2 года назад

I would love to get into using this equipment on my SuperCub. Lots of fire prevention opportunity in my area along with search and rescue in the national forest system. Thanks for the great video.

@gtr1952 2 года назад

That was awesome Steve, thanks much!! I'm also really glad to see the little push for helmets. I have an example, a 1969 Bell Star helmet that was destroyed.... with my head in it!! It hangs in my garage as a stanch reminder why we wear them!! 8} JMHO --gary

@TheSoussssss 2 года назад

Very interesting I have been doing Aerial survey on various types of cameras and lidar for 8 years over 36 countries in Africa and eastern parts of the world . Amazing how small the setups are getting every year

@kyle19791234 2 года назад

Would be super sick to borrow it for a day and check on, you know, the overall health of the large mammals about two days before over the counter archery season

@Frankestein01nl 2 года назад

add a gimbal to the rig to stay on target (the horizontal level) better?

@jwclapp1183 2 года назад

That is so interesting!!! I would love that as a flying job.

@austonwheels 2 года назад

This is insanely interesting to me! I can see so many applications this system can be used for at my local airport. We have a state park this system can be utilized for Fire prevention, as well as a coast line with consistent search and rescue calls that this would work wonderfully for as well as locating local widelife such as nesting sea turtles. Unbelievable stuff!

@skipgetelman3418 2 года назад

Would love to own a Super Cub I’m jealous

@CrystalCanyon100 2 года назад

Thanks for telling stories of unusual aviation applications and the people behind them. There are so many different ways to use flight in our world beyond getting from point A to point B.

@whiskeythrottl 2 года назад

This is super cool. I've worked in the UAS industry with similar technology. Very cool seeing similar applications being used in a Cub! It would be interesting to see how the whole operation deals with rapid changes in terrain and elevation because that was something I encountered and had to deal with while creating orthography with drones.

@RichWellner 2 года назад

Great episode Steve. Love technology for the good of the world!

@timotheethibault3223 2 года назад

They are doing Photogrammetry with airplane on agisoft photoscan in the goal of making Orthophotography. Nice video

@irishus99 2 года назад

Great video Steve!

@erickstiner1668 2 года назад

WOW…this aerial application of thermodynamics is beyond amazing. Love the techno.

@deanmiles3505 2 года назад

Hi Steve, You really get to see and experience a lot of aircraft and life. This was a very interesting subjects. Thank you for sharing. Take care, Be safe.

@Jensen8333 Год назад

I know this was a very old video by now (9 months) but this is what I do as a side gig but with my commercial drones. We can get 1cm per pixel resolution from an altitude of 400ft off the ground. The technology and coverage is insane with how easy it is to throw the drone up and scan 150 acres an hour. There is an insane wealth of information that you can pull from standard imaging.

@AlexFeldstein 2 года назад

Very interesting Steve!

@philconey11 2 года назад

I would LOVE something like this when I purchase an airplane that I can use for geological surveys with LIDAR and ag surveys with UV/IR. The 5cm resolution would be phenomenal for spotting fault scarps, mass wasting, and other potential geologic hazards in a given area. The amount of information I could get with a LIDAR version of this would be amazing.

@nitehawk86 2 года назад

10:41 Another yellow plane at the bottom of frame. :)

@brianpetrow7218 2 года назад

Always fall in love with the Bonehead TacAero helmets... :drool: Looking forward to flying with them one day..

@b3nelson 2 года назад

I love Tac Aero! First time dealing with them was flying into into The Dalles, OR for a fuel stop on the insurance checkout for my new to me Mooney. I thought I was just getting fuel when a identical Mooney pulls in for fuel with me. We stop in the FBO for a bathroom break and something to drink. My CFI bought me a Tac Aero shirt while we were in there. Went out to get on the way and I ran the battery dead trying to hot start a IO360 which I never have done before. Tac Aero was super awesome and brought out a tug and gave me a jump start and sent me on my way.

@HairHelmet 2 года назад

We stopped for the night in my new to me Mooney last year. Got a taxi to the hotel but had to walk back to the airport the next morning. The other TacAero owner recognized our headset cases and gave us a ride the rest of the way.

@goatflieg 2 года назад

No wonder you kept this a secret; the RV-14 would have been jealous. She might suspect something... evidenced by the engine break-in, perhaps? LOL The helmet issue is still nagging at me... I've got to find a way to get one of those Tac Aero helmets. Amazing technology on display here, implemented by relatively high altitude photo cropdusting. I was wondering how your stomach was doing during this... all's well that stays down. And speaking of engines, I have mine back. Drove 1900+ miles to Tulsa and back in under 48 hours; got home yesterday; it's in the hangar today. If only it wasn't winter. Oh well, gotta deal with it. Should have it mounted in the next couple days if the weather cooperates. After that, close the hangar, set up localized heaters and start reconnecting EVERYTHING.

@Jack-ne8vm 2 года назад

Image compilation software must vote out moving objects as photo control. Be neat if this imagery could be stitched into Googles maps for updates.

@ramdynebix 2 года назад

Pictures taken by planes flying lanes like this are already part of Google Maps “satellite view”. Have been for years. Just not this detailed, but close.

@glennwatson 2 года назад

Imagine it's got to be a two stage process. First stage remove the movement of the plane. You can use probability tables and then determine based on existing objects to determine where you moved in the scene. Something like the slam algorithm. Then you can exclude moving objects using multiple frames to determine velocity of objects. Done some image analysis commercially and also into aviation and I'm sure this is too much detail :)

@bnelson313braveheart8 Год назад

Very interesting technology!

@happiness52 2 года назад

Great 🎁

@fieldparsons2287 2 года назад

The music at the end sounds like the instrumental of Flying with Big Ern’s intro song 😁

@boydw1 2 года назад

Kinda surprised he's not using a lightbar system like the crop dusters do

@bradleybusch 2 года назад

That sensor doesn't require that level of accuracy. I've worked with lots of different sensors and they almost all have stricter lateral limits than the Overwatch TK series.

@boydw1 2 года назад

@@bradleybusch Still, would take a lot of the guesswork out of it. Potentially allow less overlap for better efficiency, or even higher resolution?

@ryanmcgowan3061 2 года назад

@@boydw1 Higher resolution would be lower altitudes, not increased precision of the flight paths. Higher efficiency would be higher altitude passes. The flight paths just need to ensure overlap between images. There would be no real gain by making the flight paths more precise. As soon as you bank the wings 5°, you just moved the sensor field of view dozens of feet anyway. If you want to improve anything, it would be a higher resolution sensors that could allow less passes for the same product spec, or put another way, more acres covered in a single flight without loss of resolution. Another improvement would be faster captures that allow higher speed passes without motion blur.

@boydw1 2 года назад

@@ryanmcgowan3061 My point was that higher precision swaths could allow less overlap between them, for either less total passes to cover an area, or lower altitude for higher resolution. Could also use a gyro stabilized gimbal to eliminate the bank issue, and radar altimeter to better track AGL altitude.. Yes, better, faster sensors that allow less passes & less blur would be a significant advantage.

@ryanmcgowan3061 2 года назад

@@boydw1 I understood what you meant. My point was just that the law of diminishing returns would overtake the benefits because other factors play heavier tolls. The overlap required can't be reduced, btw. The overlap is a requirement of photogrammetry, not due to inaccuracies in the flight path. Every point has to have 3 or 4 photographs of coverage minimum to get a position solution. That being said, a gimbal could make a more consistent overlap, and with a gimbal + a light bar, maybe you could afford to widen the spacing a few yards with less worry about missing gaps in coverage.

@jordang1814 2 года назад

Depending on the area you need covered you could also put it on an unmanned platform and run an automated flight path.

@paulcarstens2601 2 года назад

Very interesting and useful tech. When you had a feeing something was off with the gaps in the track lines Steve, what kept you from speaking up?

@ultralightflyer1260 2 года назад

So this is how microsoft flight sim is made

@FlightChops 2 года назад

Kinda... yeah - they use Bing maps data, much of which is built like this. I did a video with the dev team: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HrJs0jK4a1g.html

@zidoocfi 2 года назад

Thanks Steve for the safety plug about helmets. When I was a kid it wasn't cool to wear seat belts, but as a society we've had a paradigm shift in cars about seat belts. General aviation needs to have the same paradigm shift for pilots in single-seat-width cockpits. Less needed for cockpits that are two seats wide.

@robertbristow6273 2 года назад

What's the thought process on the two seat wide aircraft?

@zidoocfi 2 года назад

@@robertbristow6273Head injuries in turbulence and/or during a forced landing are more likely in narrow-fuselage aircraft because any side-to-side violence essentially guarantees hitting something hard, while in wider aircraft the risk for that goes way down.

@willjohnson211 2 года назад

I have an evo helmet for cropdusting

@toyota399 2 года назад

Will this ever turn into drones being the primary tool for this type of aerial photography?

@philconey11 2 года назад

Not until the useful load and time aloft is sufficient to do so. Most heavy lift drones with LIDAR/Imagery capabilities for orthomosaics and whatnot that are actually available to the civilian public can only fly for about 20-40 minutes. Maybe in about 10 years. As of right now, most of this type of aerial imagery will remain the job for helicopters and small airplanes.

@DLow302 2 года назад

I’ve been seeing multiple 172 rental pilots wearing helmets at my airport lately, you could technically hit your head while driving too, might as well wear a helmet then too

@troyjollimore4100 2 года назад

Like anything, it's a personal decision. Though I haven't seen any aircraft with surround airbag systems yet... ;) You also need to wear a helmet for most forms of autosport, even in your regular car...

@LIamaLlama554 2 года назад

I mean you really should… people just don’t.

@MaShcode 2 года назад

Seems like the next step will be near real-time data transmission and analysis but given the remote nature of the work might have to sacrifice some resolution for economy. Two inch per pixel? Omg. Shrinking the system into a drone footprint will save on helmets. 👩‍🚀

@lurkingknight 2 года назад

who wouldn't want to wear that helmet? that thing looks cool as hell.

@terrydavis8451 2 года назад

As many people are killed from head injuries in survivable crashes should prove to everyone...Wear a helmet. Even if you take it off during cruise have in handy in case of ditching. MORE HELMETS MORE FLY

@regulator5521 2 года назад

What type do you recommend?

@regulator5521 2 года назад

Nvmd, he just mentioned the helmet company 😂

@flyingwing7544 2 года назад

Where did you get the spy camera?

@DavidTaghehchian 2 года назад

Why a Manned aircraft vs Unmanned?

@Ficon 2 года назад

How in the world do you ferry a Cub to Kenya? Do you ship it by sea/air?

@JustinJackson11 2 года назад

Take the wings off, put into a shipping container and then ship like anything else.

@goatflieg 2 года назад

I'll get back to you as soon as this Ian Ethan Case livestream is done! LOL

@williambrasky3891 2 года назад

If the spooks would release their satellite tech it would put these guys out of business. Awesome tech. I'm afraid it's transitory at the moment, but stuff like this will always be around in one form or another. Glad they have been able to carve out a nice.