Visit our booth at:
Manitoba Ag Days
January 20-22, 2009
Brandon, ManitobaWorld Ag Show
April 4,5,6, Toledo, Ohio February 10-12, 2009
Tulare, California
Booth C3401
Recent News
Unmanned Systems Down on the Farm
Gaea honey Cutt, AUVSI, September 2008 Click hereCropCam Featured in Episode 2 of BBC1 Series, "Britain from Above' at 2100
August 17 in UKWest Sussex Farmer Using Specially Adapted Army Spy Plan to Treat Land
BBC News, August 15, 2008 Click hereQinetiQ achieves UK's First Unmanned Flight for Agricultural Crop Monitoring
Shephards, August 2008 Click hereAvian research project takes off
McGill Reporter, June 2008 Click hereSky's the limit for unmanned aerial vehicles
Winnipeg Free Press, June 2008 Click hereResearch takes flight
In-Forum Archive, April 2008 Click hereDrones ready to tackle different fields
Business Edge, Ontario Business News, March 2008 Click hereArticle in Central Valley Business Times, February 2008
Click hereArticle in Ilmailu Magazine (Finnish Aviation Association)
Ilmakuvia lennokilla Click hereAerial Images Tell Agronomic Tale
Ron Lyseng, Western Producer, Dec 20, 2007Green Fingered UAV's
Unmanned Systems, Sept/Oct 2007, Pages 24-25 Laurence R "Nuke" Newcome, Unmanned Vehicles, November 2007FAA Considering CropCam COA
The Newsletter of the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium, Fall 2007, Issue 50Unmanned Systems, Nov/Dec 2007Piloto Automatica
An Argentine magazine called "El Federal" on October 4, 2007, Pages 40-41 Click hereUnmanned Systems: The Farmer’s New Friend
Unmanned Systems, Sept/Oct 2007, Pages 24-25Remote Controlled Aircraft Utilized to Collect Aerial Photography in Otter Tail County
The Newsletter of the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium, Fall 2007, Issue 50Click hereAerial Scout: Remote control plane helps diagnose problems
Progressive Farmer, September 2007, Page 8Click here
“CropCam Aerial Photography,”Model Airplane News, August, 2007, Page 116“CropCam: Mini ag plane,” “Spotlight On Canada,”
June 11, 2007, Page 2“Farmers get bird’s-eye view,” by Scott A. Yates, Capital Press, March 2, 2007
“Keep a better eye on your crops with the new CropCam,” Manitoba CO-OPERATOR, November 16, 2007, Pg. 15
Additional Equipment Needed
| Camera | Estimates |
| Pentax Camera Optio are A20, A30, A40 (A40 may not be available in some parts of the world) |
$350.00 |
| Discontinued Optio models that will still work are s5i and A10 |
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| Memory Card | $80.00 |
TOTAL: |
$430.00 |
| Laptop |
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| Laptop |
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| Requirements Pentium II, 500 MHZ, 256 MB Ram |
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| Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP recommended (not Vista) |
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TOTAL: |
$1,600.00 |
| Recommended Software to Stitch Images |
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| PT-GUI Software (www.ptgui.com) |
$80.00 |
| AutoStitch free software from the University of British Columbia |
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| (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html) |
Free |
TOTAL: |
$80.00 |
| RC Field Box (Prices from Local RC Store) |
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| RC Receiver and Transmitter, either Futaba or JR Propo (Do not use Spectrum 2.4)* |
$200.00 |
| Ernst airplane stand |
$13.00 |
| Allen key/ballwrench |
$4.00 |
| Thunder Power RC 1010C Li Poly Programmable Battery Charger* |
$200.00 |
| FMA Direct 4 dean pin parallel board * |
$20.00 |
| Xacto knife | $4.00 |
| 5 minute epoxy | $7.00 |
| 1/2 oz thin CA glue | $6.00 |
| 1/2 oz thick CA glue |
$6.00 |
| Accelerator for CA glue |
$7.00 |
| 6 oz fiberglass cloth (for repairs) |
$6.00 |
| Power Shot motor cleaner |
$8.00 |
| 10-32 wing bolts 4/pack |
$2.00 |
| # 64 rubber bands (per box) |
$3.00 |
| Extra set of flight batteries 4 packs x $70 |
$250.00 |
| Thunder Power L-Polymer 2100 mah / 11.1 volts (3 cell) |
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TOTAL: |
$736.00 |
| Additional items (Prices from Hardware / Sporting goods store) |
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| Large Tool Box for use as a Field Box |
$13.00 |
| DC to AC converter to power laptop and radio modem |
$44.00 |
| Handheld GPS |
$107.00 |
TOTAL: |
$164.00 |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Q-tips and alcohol for cleaning camera lens |
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| Paper towels / Windex for airframe |
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* NOTES: Thunder Power L-Polymer 2100 mah / 11.1 volts (3 cell) Thunder Power RC 1010C Li Poly Programmable Battery Charger To charge the batteries at the same time we use the FMA Direct four dean pin parallel board Revised April 29, 2008 |
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