Success on a glacier
It’s been a few days since our last post, but we’re very appreciative of the positive comments from the Quest team. They’re absolutely right, that our 200-model has served us […]
It’s been a few days since our last post, but we’re very appreciative of the positive comments from the Quest team. They’re absolutely right, that our 200-model has served us […]
What Dave and Andy have achieved is no mean feat. Operating in such a hostile environment and with just the basic UAV training from four months before to rely on, would leave […]
We’re facing some serious challenges when it comes to planning our imaging flights and choosing a site for take-off and landing. The high Arctic is an unforgiving place. The Survey […]
So, we’ve been here a few days now, and after our rifle training and sessions on how to deal with polar bears, we have permission to leave the settlement on […]
We’ve arrived! After a day and a half of travelling, we arrived to find that our Quest UAV has arrived safely, with only minor transit damage to one wing, along […]
Day 2 saw us undertaking an Introduction to flight planning and mission monitoring. The software provided to do this, and indeed the whole approach, seemed quite intuitive and very flexible. […]
David and Andy drove up from York on Monday morning, arriving at about 10:30, to be met by Nigel, Jon and Andrew, as well as two others who were there […]
David and Andy have been preparing for the forthcoming hands on training by getting their teeth into the pre-training prep. They were provided with a link the QuestUAV’s “Crewroom” – […]
I’ve recently got interested in exploring how water travels across the surface of glaciers. A few decades ago, the way in which supraglaical streams meander across glaciers was an area […]
Requirements: Image a glacier in RGB with sufficient coverage to create a sub 10cm GSD Orthorectified mosaic of up to 50Ha in one flight. Carry a robust camera that will […]