Sunday, 21 February 2016

A Quick Start Guide about the Walkera QR X350 Quadcopter

The Walkera QR X350 Quadcopter equipped with many splendid features for their user for an ultimate flying experience. This feature-rich copter comes with both compass and GPS sensors, a return to Home and multiple flight modes. Walkers QR X350 comprises with an advanced feature that makes it out of the box than other drones.

Latest UAV from Walkera for aerial photography platforms is the Walkera QR X350 Pro. It comes with DEVO 10 transmitters and contains a GoPro ready new Gimbal. This drone consists all modified features, which you wish to begin flying out of the box. It is designed for immediate flyers though some users believe that beginners can try the QR X350. You can easily be flown this indoors or outdoors and comes with a flight time around 10-15 minutes. It consists numerous features:

  • Ready-to-Fly
  • Flight time of 10-15 minutes
  • GPS position holding
  • Lipo battery with brushless motor
  • Altitude sensor 2.4 GHz transmitter with 2km range
  • Extra propellers included In-built GoPro mount 


Flying the Walkera QR X350 

This drone equipped with all latest features which an hobbiyst or a professional photographer need in his/her quadcopter. Initially it is designed for the intermediates, but after flying this, users believe that beginners can easily operate the Walkera quadcopters. One can fly this quadcopter both inside or outside and comes with flight-time 10-15 minutes.

QR X350 are available in three models:

  • A BNF version that does not come up with any battery or transmitter 
  • An RTF version that comes with the transmitter/ receiver and battery 
  • An FPV version that comes with transmitter/receiver, battery and Walkera DV04 camera 

Return Home Feature
With a simple push of a button, the copter will return to its home position. This feature of Walkera QR X350 is particularly for finding the lost track of your copter, or you just want an easy way to get your aircraft back where it started. There is a chance to lost the aircraft if radio signals are interrupted or lost.

The G-2D Gimbal
Gimbal is designed for GoPro 3 and iLook is that the same size and fits perfectly. There is enough clearance for wire and you can easily the small Micro SD Card, whereas a camera is mounted in Gimbal. There is a control unit that comes with the package. You can adjust your title angle with a screwdriver from this unit. Quad legs are very large, it will keep the cam and gimbal off the ground, but if you are in the grass it will push the camera up. Once you start flying everything is fine.

Walkera QR X350 offers a stable flight with an affordable price. Equipped with several latest features that will make your flying experience astounding. This quadcopter is perfect for budget-conscious users that are looking for a more sophisticated drone for aerial photography.

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Sentera Announced the John Deere Operations for Agricultural Drone Services

Sentera, LLC, recently tie up with the John Deere Operations Center Production Partner. Sentera is a World Wide provider of software, sensors, and drone technologies to the agriculture industry that shakes hand with an American corporation, John Deere, that manufacture agriculture, construction, and forestry machinery.

Now, customer and dealer's of John Deere can easily access all the latest agricultural techniques that are produced by the Senetra including, AgVault Software, precision sensors, and agriculture scouting DJI drones. With the help of this users can easily capture precise multispectral imagery, analyze crop health data at the field's age, and can share critical data with items, consulting or expanding the circle of impact with an ease.

Sentra feels very jubilant with this agreement and wants to extend their advanced crop health management products to John Deere's customers and dealers network. Sentera's vice president of agriculture said that “To stay competitive, dealers and farmers continually look for forward-thinking solutions to help reduce inputs while increasing yields. Our software and products are designed precisely with that in mind”.

Sentera offers the following products to the John Deere's customers and dealers network:

AgVault Software and Mobile App: This software comprises a desktop client and mobile app for iOS and Android that integrate with each other. This software creates an interface with any sensors, drones, any UAV satellite or mobile app. So, that the farmers can view crop health imagery and historical data at the field edge. After that, it quickly transforms the entire data into the farm equipment.

Single and Double Sensors: Small sensor of Sentera is about 25 grams or the double sensor is around 51 grams in weight.

The Sentera Double- this sensor is specially designed to collect crop near Infrared (NIR) and High Resolution colored photography at the same time. Customer loves this sensor, as it saves time and their comprehensive data. This sensor inscribed with the two cameras, they simultaneously provide color photography for scouting and the complete information which is used to produce NDVI image data. You can get these two products in a single flight.

The Sentera Single: An astounding drone sensor, which is specially designed to monitor the crop health with the help of NIR/NDVI data collection. This tiny and light weighted tool are perfect for farmers to collect the NDVI data.

Phantom 3 NDVI Upgrade: Sentera upgrades the Phantom 3 quadcopter, the best way to gather the entire data of NDVI or ultra-HD color at the same time. Sentera provides you an easy upgrade for Phantom 3. which gather all the near infrared images and quickly turns the NDVI data with our AgVault software.

DJI Phantom 3 Quadcopter: DJI Phantom 3 is one of the best ways to get fast color images of your field. This is a very affordable method to produce clear, crisp ultra HD-photos and video. DJI Phantom 3 is specially designed for beginners so that they can fly it with an ease. If you want to indulge yourself in the agriculture sector and want to see the aerial view of your field. Drone is a perfect solution for it.

Customer finds it easy to operate Santera's software, sensors and drone technology. Farmers can easily access this technology. Regardless of field size, and budget. They can design and implement a robust end-to-end crop health management program unique to their operation.

Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Eagle Vs Drone: Dutch Police Trained Raptors to Destroy Rogue Quadcopters

Just imagine you are at the football stadium, playing football with your friends and a rogue drone buzzing over you. And suddenly a majestic eagle hunting down an unmanned aerial vehicle out of the sky.

Yes! It actually happens. May be you remember the news that, last year two eagles snatched a DJI drone quadcopter out of the sky, thinking that it was a meal. Dutch Police tie up with a raptor training company in Denmark "Guard from Above" to train raptors to destroy the rogue drones out of the air. After grabbing the drone, the eagles locate a safe place to land and try to destroy the drone by hitting it in the rigid surface.



These majestic aerial predators could soon play a crucial role in ensuring the skies are cleared from the multifarious dangerous or rebellious drones, that are putting many lives at risk. Dutch government want more safer technique than to capture the drone with an anti drone, so they attain this alternative technique (Eagles) to catch the errant quadcopters.

Recently, Japanese officials also introduced a new capture device- a high tensile synthetic net to snag a recalcitrant drone. It creates a no-fly network, in which one could not able to fly their drone. But this technique creates numerous difficulties also, as it plummets to the ground can cause a lot of damage. An eagle solves the problem entirely, with the razor sharp nails, they can easily capture the prey, whether it will be a fish, bird or a drone.


But, if you compare with these two, a trained eagle is perfect to capture the rogue drone. Drones have become increasingly common in the skies these days. Many agencies are very careful about the safety of people, large commercial aircraft or even about the privacy, which these unmanned aerial vehicle can easily invade.