Here's a discussion with a focus on commercial operations, or the really dedicated hobbyist, or the motivated stakeholder.
Use cases that I have in mind here are construction, and tourism-based farming.
It has been done - I've seen great example of periodic video clips from a home construction from the same orbit. You. Get to see the evolution of the construction. I think this is great, but I think it can be done differently, and there is room for improvement.
I prefer the look a photograph-based time lapse over video clips for construction - the fast forward effect, and actually watching the structure go up piece by piece from an elevated and dynamic vantage point would be a very attractive result. That’s the vision anyway.
I have been doing some reading on Construction time-lapse. Seems to be a popular undertaking for traditional cameras, but I don’t see any really good ones coming from UAS in the form of Hyperlapse.
So lets talk logistics. Traditionally, and somewhat depending on the phase of construction, I understand the photo interval to be between 1 and 5 minutes, up to 15. Obviously, that makes it interesting for us with our 15-20 minute flight times.
So how do we do it? Example - Begin our orbit with a shot, shot interval is one minute, move only a couple inches between shots. Execute as many as possible per battery. If you only have four batteries, that’s all you get for the day.
Considerations for the above formula are obviously to capture the evolution of the project, but also to maintain a smooth flight profile - greater distance between shots would seemingly result in a super choppy product.
How often to run this process? Daily? Every other day? Weekly? Something between?
Seems like a waste of battery, drone life, and time between shots. Is that simply the cost of this undertaking?
Good reading on Construction Time lapse below, with a good example video.
Time-lapse photography at construction sites
Next use case is farming. I work with a local lavender farmer. This would be very cool to document the growing phase. Also, Daffodil and Tulip fields are a HUGE tourist attraction near by. Would the formula be similar to Construction? Below is a link to a time lapse of Rice growing - the smooth transitions here between growing phases are very nice. And since this is a much slower process, less “action” to document, seems periodic smooth video clips would possibly work better here as opposed to the traditional photo method discussed above for construction.
Thoughts?
Use cases that I have in mind here are construction, and tourism-based farming.
It has been done - I've seen great example of periodic video clips from a home construction from the same orbit. You. Get to see the evolution of the construction. I think this is great, but I think it can be done differently, and there is room for improvement.
I prefer the look a photograph-based time lapse over video clips for construction - the fast forward effect, and actually watching the structure go up piece by piece from an elevated and dynamic vantage point would be a very attractive result. That’s the vision anyway.
I have been doing some reading on Construction time-lapse. Seems to be a popular undertaking for traditional cameras, but I don’t see any really good ones coming from UAS in the form of Hyperlapse.
So lets talk logistics. Traditionally, and somewhat depending on the phase of construction, I understand the photo interval to be between 1 and 5 minutes, up to 15. Obviously, that makes it interesting for us with our 15-20 minute flight times.
So how do we do it? Example - Begin our orbit with a shot, shot interval is one minute, move only a couple inches between shots. Execute as many as possible per battery. If you only have four batteries, that’s all you get for the day.
Considerations for the above formula are obviously to capture the evolution of the project, but also to maintain a smooth flight profile - greater distance between shots would seemingly result in a super choppy product.
How often to run this process? Daily? Every other day? Weekly? Something between?
Seems like a waste of battery, drone life, and time between shots. Is that simply the cost of this undertaking?
Good reading on Construction Time lapse below, with a good example video.
Time-lapse photography at construction sites
Next use case is farming. I work with a local lavender farmer. This would be very cool to document the growing phase. Also, Daffodil and Tulip fields are a HUGE tourist attraction near by. Would the formula be similar to Construction? Below is a link to a time lapse of Rice growing - the smooth transitions here between growing phases are very nice. And since this is a much slower process, less “action” to document, seems periodic smooth video clips would possibly work better here as opposed to the traditional photo method discussed above for construction.
Thoughts?