Matthew's air force: Messages

Jim Batley December 2 at 12:52pm
An air force in your future? You might want to check up on your professors' knowledge of this development. After your grades are finalized, of course.
"Although it is black, durable, quiet, and lightweight, its most common use will probably be flights above farmland. Access to routine, affordable aerial imagery is a boon to growers, allowing them to spot soil differences, mold, vermin and humidity problems. Photos make field damage from pigs immediately obvious, show heat burn and allow management of grass growing between crop rows." http://bit.ly/dFmhVa

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The most interesting aerial photographs tend to be the highest risk for flying cameras, but my host was confident. We agreed to launch the plane in a field and direct it over a creek and across a neighborhood of single family homes.
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Matthew Bright December 2 at 9:47pm Report
Isn't this military technology?

Jim Batley December 13 at 5:22pm
Military technology would cost the taxpayers millions more than this. It looks like a gifted application of off-the-shelf materials and gadgets.
It may have been developed by someone who wanted to know more of what his neighbors were up too.
The technology that keeps us all from getting killed may cost far too much, but I do not regard it as all bad.
I have had second thoughts about the application to agriculture. Images from satellites might be more cost effective if developed and widely used. Images from outside the visible spectrum might support a weatherproof surveillance of crops and herds.