Would you consider hiring a drone thermographer to help maintain your infrastructure and count stock?
Thermal Imaging
- Thread starter Skymariner
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
If it was of a high enough resolution then I'd hire it to do a field survey.
I already map fertility, yield, topography etc. But I reckon an IR survey would show up the cold spots caused by poor drainage and maybe highlight a few 'unknown unknowns', and it would be interesting to compare a heat map against an NDVI.
And you could do the house and cottages too, to see where they're haemorrhaging heat from...
I already map fertility, yield, topography etc. But I reckon an IR survey would show up the cold spots caused by poor drainage and maybe highlight a few 'unknown unknowns', and it would be interesting to compare a heat map against an NDVI.
And you could do the house and cottages too, to see where they're haemorrhaging heat from...
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
They don't cost a whole lot, if it is only to search for heatloss you might aswell buy one.
no
- Location
- East Sussex
When a new born calf escapes into a tall grass silage field I know I'd find one handy!
Very true, but thermography is a little more complicated than looking for heat loss. The process involves tuning the image, identifying what's anomalies and what is normal (often people assume a certain colour is bad but it's about the relation of thermal energy between materials). So the bare minimum drone costs around £6k, add into that licences, training and software to convert the image to a useable radiometric image for analysis. For identifying lost or stray livestock then it's a little easier as you just need to spot the body of thermal energy
- Location
- East Sussex
Probably once every few years or as little as we can help it! It's just a ball ache at the time and mostly they'll find mum again in their own.
basically it doesn't happen enough to warrant buying my own thermal scope but it feels like a different story at the time
Tractorstant
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- Location
- Monaco.
Interesting handle @Skymariner. Use Termal quite a bit on Yachts, Flir is the go too, very good for Man Over Board situations or Fog.
Thanks @Tractorstant , I'm an ex Royal Navy Aircraft Engineer, so thought it appropriate. Seen plenty of MOB's!
Tractorstant
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- Location
- Monaco.
Ahh noted, I am more into floating Gin palaces than Battleships! There was a link on here to a company that used thermal drones for a Silo fire at ( tilbury? ) docks
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
What are they like for badger spotting? Asking for a friend.
Great for spotting all sorts of wildlife!