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Redwood Forest Drone Flight

Taylor Drone Test Flight

Published by mdvaden on May 28, 2013 | Leave a response

Michael Taylor, tall tree discoverer. just mailed me a video file from one of his recent drone test flights over a west coast forest.  Michael has assembled a couple of drones, and programmed them to follow certain flight paths and elevation, to take video or photographs of trees and forest.  The pic below is a […]

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Taylor Drone Launch

Published by mdvaden on April 14, 2013 | Leave a response

Recently, Michael Taylor (co-discoverer of world’s tallest tree Hyperion) has been assembling and launching drones to further explore, map and document forests and look for tall trees. The unit shown below was fitted with a video camera, and follows a flight plan. This is the latest of several tools that Michael added to his assortment […]