[OSM-talk] successful test of aerial photography from a folding canoe

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

Cities and towns are usually located near water bodies. So the idea was 
to use a foldable canoe as a mobile platform to launch a quadcopter for 
aerial photography.

I transport the canoe Ally Expedition 18 on a back seat of a car. It 
takes about 15 minutes to assemble this canoe.

As you can see in video I installed two Ally outriggers with frame 
extension for stability. These outriggers were actually not necessary 
for flying as the canoe is stable enough.

Calibration, initialization, three takeoffs, and three landings were all 
successful. I used Release&Catch By Hand technique for all three flights.


I made a short (two minutes) video about the test: 
https://youtu.be/lpRloVZ5w5U


Aerial images and videos could be uploaded to a respective Wikimedia 
category, which is then connected to the OpenStreetMap via wikipedia, 
wikidata, or wikimedia_commons tag. Oblique low-altitude photographs and 
videos could be quite useful for 3D mapping.

Best regards,
Oleksiy