{"id":4935,"date":"2016-04-28T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T09:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2016-04-28T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T09:43:03","slug":"4935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2016\/04\/28\/4935\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockwell Street Drone Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting lecturer \/ aerial surveyor \/ landscape architect Peter Wilder demonstrated the Inspire 1\u00a0drone in the Stockwell Street crit pit; showing how it is able to provide stable indoor flight using its optical flow sensors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4942\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/04\/drone1.jpg\" alt=\"drone1\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/04\/drone1.jpg 440w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/04\/drone1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/04\/drone2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4943\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/04\/drone2.jpg\" alt=\"drone2\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/04\/drone2.jpg 440w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/04\/drone2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/LuBlvRhpdE0<\/p>\n<p>The flight time of the Inspire 1 is dictated by its battery life of 20 minutes with larger surveys packaged into\u00a0chunks of that time. \u00a0It can stream live video back to the base station at 4K resolution.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CDOys9q88-I&#038;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n<p>Other interesting applications of drone technology include firefighting &#8211; with thermal imaging showing the hottest part of the fire so this location can be transmitted to &#8220;smart&#8221; fire engines, and crop dusting with the drone indicating\u00a0any gaps in\u00a0coverage of\u00a0the insecticide, fungicide etc.<\/p>\n<p>Peter founded<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survey-drone.co.uk\"> Survey Drone<\/a> in 2014 to provide services for terrain modelling,\u00a0aerial photography, thermal imaging of buildings, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting lecturer \/ aerial surveyor \/ landscape architect Peter Wilder demonstrated the Inspire 1\u00a0drone in the Stockwell Street crit pit; showing how it is able to provide stable indoor flight using its optical flow sensors. https:\/\/youtu.be\/LuBlvRhpdE0 The flight time of the Inspire 1 is dictated by its battery life of 20 minutes with larger surveys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-and-exhibitions","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}