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Fully customized design to meet performance and cost targets, when loaded with a flight plan these RPAS are fully autonomous, they take off, fly and land on their own. This RPAS application is used to identify antenna and communication tower positioning & height For non line-of-sight point to point radio links this is particularly valuable as software modelling is not reliable and the risk of building an antenna tower in the wrong location is expensive. The RPAS includes video recording, on screen text showing flight information and full data text logging for heat mapping on Google Earth.

This project uses an off the shelf DJI Phantom 4 RPAS that has a methane laser detector and microSD data log payload attached. Methane concentration is read and logged with date, time and GPS coordinates for post processing on the ground where a methane concentration heat map is overlaid onto standard Google maps.

High definition video with built in First Person Video (FPV) system (flying the system from the pilot’s eye) were key to this project. The system also needed to have a long flight time and very stable operation to avoid video degradation.