DJI Phantom 3 UAV Used for Agriculture
We're going to put to the test a new DJI phantom 3 drone. And I can see these are going to be a really important tool for farmers and anyone in their agricultural industry. You'll be able to do things like checking troughs, checking tanks dams, making sure stock aren't stuck around the muddy edges along fence lines and of course if your lambing or carving you'll be able to send this out and just do a bit of monitoring of your stock.
And agricultural drone will save you from getting into your diesel Utes and spending hours day after day checking these when you may not have to if there's not a problem leave the ute at home. And I think you'll recruit the cost of these in easily under 12 months in just fuel savings.
I suppose so I don't end up putting it in the light or into a tree it's a simple Quadcopter 4 motors each of these motors actually spin counter rotating so one will spin clockwise the other one will spin anti clockwise that just helps prevent it from your whites in the sky. Obviously a camera system, we have a battery which is easy to replace and put back in the gimbal as you can see the red lights indicate the front of the drone.
Some of the new features that the DJI Phantom 3 has that the DJI Phantom 2 did not possess is this vision positioning system. So basically, you have a downwards facing camera as well as 2 or an ultrasonic emitting device here.
The ultrasonics is actually emitting a high-pitch frequency just like echolocation like a bat basically and the camera system. It's just a downward facing camera. So, you can't actually see the footage. But, what it's doing is feeding that image to the flight controller and it's determining whether it's moved off a spot. So, if it can see something like a Rockmore some sort of area that it's above. If it starts to drift off it realizes that it's moved off the spot and needs to come back to correct itself some new features the ability to set waypoints. So, now you can actually let this plot a path so to speak a flight path and just hit go in this single dolphin fly that path by itself the way that you do that you're basically the first mission you record your mission so you'd take off you'd go over to a position here record that point you could then fly down a bit and over into this position and record that point and then sort of fly over somewhere else and record a point then tomorrow or the next day you can then revisit that mission so you basically simply go to that mission load it in you press fly or okay go. and this will take off it'll go to that position it would go down to that position that we recorded and of course off to the third position and then come back home and land they also have what's called follow me. So, now if I had this controller in my hand with my phone connected getting a GPS signal that GPS signal would be being fed back up to the DJI Phantom. So that, it would actually be following me as I as I move around.
So, we can set that to a certain distance whether it's 10 meters or 20 meters away. I'm holding the controller and the final thing which is quite cool is. It's a called point of interest or targeting circular circulation so basically if you have a subject that you want to film such as a person or anything attack or whatever you can basically have this set up you nominate the point that you want to look at you. Then, again set the circumference of your circle and hit go and this again will just circle around the target keeping the target in frame always and that's just based on that GPS position. So if the target moved, it wouldn't nosing because it's the GPS point that it is encircling.
I think the DJI Phantom 3 is a great starting point. It's a way of dipping your toe in the technology pond so to speak and as you become more familiar upgrading to a more advanced model where you can. Then, get into monitoring of crops for nutrient deficiencies and pest infestation!
And agricultural drone will save you from getting into your diesel Utes and spending hours day after day checking these when you may not have to if there's not a problem leave the ute at home. And I think you'll recruit the cost of these in easily under 12 months in just fuel savings.
I suppose so I don't end up putting it in the light or into a tree it's a simple Quadcopter 4 motors each of these motors actually spin counter rotating so one will spin clockwise the other one will spin anti clockwise that just helps prevent it from your whites in the sky. Obviously a camera system, we have a battery which is easy to replace and put back in the gimbal as you can see the red lights indicate the front of the drone.
Some of the new features that the DJI Phantom 3 has that the DJI Phantom 2 did not possess is this vision positioning system. So basically, you have a downwards facing camera as well as 2 or an ultrasonic emitting device here.
The ultrasonics is actually emitting a high-pitch frequency just like echolocation like a bat basically and the camera system. It's just a downward facing camera. So, you can't actually see the footage. But, what it's doing is feeding that image to the flight controller and it's determining whether it's moved off a spot. So, if it can see something like a Rockmore some sort of area that it's above. If it starts to drift off it realizes that it's moved off the spot and needs to come back to correct itself some new features the ability to set waypoints. So, now you can actually let this plot a path so to speak a flight path and just hit go in this single dolphin fly that path by itself the way that you do that you're basically the first mission you record your mission so you'd take off you'd go over to a position here record that point you could then fly down a bit and over into this position and record that point and then sort of fly over somewhere else and record a point then tomorrow or the next day you can then revisit that mission so you basically simply go to that mission load it in you press fly or okay go. and this will take off it'll go to that position it would go down to that position that we recorded and of course off to the third position and then come back home and land they also have what's called follow me. So, now if I had this controller in my hand with my phone connected getting a GPS signal that GPS signal would be being fed back up to the DJI Phantom. So that, it would actually be following me as I as I move around.
So, we can set that to a certain distance whether it's 10 meters or 20 meters away. I'm holding the controller and the final thing which is quite cool is. It's a called point of interest or targeting circular circulation so basically if you have a subject that you want to film such as a person or anything attack or whatever you can basically have this set up you nominate the point that you want to look at you. Then, again set the circumference of your circle and hit go and this again will just circle around the target keeping the target in frame always and that's just based on that GPS position. So if the target moved, it wouldn't nosing because it's the GPS point that it is encircling.
I think the DJI Phantom 3 is a great starting point. It's a way of dipping your toe in the technology pond so to speak and as you become more familiar upgrading to a more advanced model where you can. Then, get into monitoring of crops for nutrient deficiencies and pest infestation!
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