{"id":116,"date":"2013-05-28T23:39:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T23:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2013-05-29T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T02:29:34","slug":"taylor-drone-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/2013\/05\/28\/taylor-drone-test-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Drone Test Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Taylor, tall tree discoverer. just mailed me a video file from one of his recent drone test flights over a west coast forest.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The pic below is a screen capture, about 1\/2 way through this nearly 20 minute long flight, at a point where the drone was banking to the left.\u00a0 The drone can fly continuous for up to an hour, but most of the flights are much shorter. Taylor needs to program each move of the drone. Where it needs to turn, where to gain elevation and where to maintain elevation. It does not sense obstacles and react or compensate accordingly. So if there is a hill between launch point A (home) and point B (destination), Michael must program an elevation rise and coordinate point so the drone&#8217;s GPS let&#8217;s it know when to rise over the top with room to spare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_117\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bridge_Cr_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117\" alt=\"Redwood Forest Drone Flight\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bridge_Cr_600-e1369784311398.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood Forest Drone Flight<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_119\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Drone_2_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119\" alt=\"Michael Taylor Drone\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Drone_2_600-e1369794187335.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Taylor Drone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Taylor, tall tree discoverer. just mailed me a video file from one of his recent drone test flights over a west coast forest.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The pic below is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,44],"tags":[17,21,15],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coast-redwood","category-forest","category-research","tag-drone","tag-redwood","tag-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}