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Canadian oil and gas companies must reclaim and monitor inactive resource extraction sites for many years after operations are completed. Land reclamation efforts are routinely evaluated through manual vegetation surveys. To capture spatial and temporal variability across large areas, ecological surveyors set up and inspect numerous small plots, which can take a small team an entire season to survey. The labor cost for these manual surveys is amplified by logistical difficulties, as the low-lying wetland terrain requires specialized low-ground disturbance vehicles or access via helicopter during field survey. Often, they end up sampling just a subset of all the sites...
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DJI has released an update for its recently released DJI FPV drone adding new features and fixing bugs present in the previous version. There are also reports that FPV Drone will receive a temporary speed limit restriction to meet the requirements of national departments later this month. What's new? Added ability to enable or disable video subtitles under camera settings in goggles. Added ability to trigger Find My Drone by pressing Mode button and Brake button simultaneously on the motion controller Added flashing auxiliary bottom light when Find My Drone is triggered Added ability to start or stop motors in Manual...
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Sony plans to release its Airpeak S1 professional-use drone, the first in the Airpeak line, later this year in September. The Sony Airpeak S1 is said to be the smallest commercial drone capable of supporting a full-frame mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. The upcoming drone from Sony enables dynamic and precise flight with high agility by using a proprietary motor, propeller, control system and sensing technology, and supporting the creative expression of its users to the fullest. It also supports the production of high-quality aerial images with a remote controller that can control the aircraft at will, obstacle detection and automatic flight...
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Inspections are among the fastest growing uses of drones, with acceleration from improved sensors, payloads, and drones mixed with the relatively low-cost price tag for a completed aerial inspection system. DJI has worked with industry leaders to produce a list of the top use cases within the inspection industry. The top use cases include agriculture, architecture, engineering, and construction, chemicals, oil, and gas, electricity, and public safety. Top use cases Agriculture The integration of multispectral drones provides farmers high-quality data to help them identify healthy and distressed crops and allows for precise intervention. Drones can also survey a crop periodically helping agronomists identify better...
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The Zenmuse L1 from DJI is the company's latest LiDAR and RGB solution for aerial surveying. The payload combines a Livox LiDAR module, a high-accuracy IMU, and a camera with a 1-inch CMOS sensor explicitly designed to work with the DJI Matrice 300 RTK enterprise drone. Digitise without compromise The Zenmuse L1 allows for true-colour point cloud models to be produced in real-time. Up to 2km of point cloud data can also be collected in a single flight and processed after the flight using the DJI Terra app. The data produced from the sensor is of the highest quality thanks...
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