METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REMOTE SENSING WITH DRONES AND MOUNTED SENSOR DEVICES
First Claim
1. A method of remote sensing using a plurality of drone devices, comprising:
- at a first self-contained battery operated device fixedly mounted to a first drone device in the plurality of drone devices, the first self-contained battery operated device including, connected by a common bus, one or more first processors, a first accelerometer, a first gyroscope, a first location detection device, a first two-dimensional pixilated detector, and memory for storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more first processors;
capturing one or more first time-stamped images of a first environmental region using the first two-dimensional pixilated detector at a time when the first drone device is airborne;
for each respective first time-stamped image of the captured one or more first time-stamped images, obtaining a respective set of meta data, the respective set including;
rotational values obtained using the first gyroscope, the rotational values indicating a relative orientation of the first self-contained battery operated device with respect to a respective reference orientation at a time when the respective first time-stamped image is captured; and
location information obtained using the first location detection device at a time when the respective first time-stamped image is captured; and
sending, to a remote processing device, the one or more first time-stamped images and the respective sets of meta data for the one or more first time-stamped images.
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Abstract
A self-contained battery-operated device is fixedly mounted to a drone device in a plurality of drone devices. The first self-contained battery-operated device includes one or more processors, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a location detection device, a two-dimensional pixilated detector, and memory, all connected by a common bus. Time-stamped images of an environmental region are captured using the two-dimensional pixilated detector at a time when the drone device is airborne. For each of the captured time-stamped images, a respective set of meta data is obtained, which includes (1) rotational values obtained using the gyroscope, indicating a relative orientation of the self-contained battery-operated device with respect to a respective reference orientation at a time of image capture, and (2) location information obtained using the location detection device at a time of image capture. The time-stamped images and the respective sets of meta data are sent to a remote processing device.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of remote sensing using a plurality of drone devices, comprising:
at a first self-contained battery operated device fixedly mounted to a first drone device in the plurality of drone devices, the first self-contained battery operated device including, connected by a common bus, one or more first processors, a first accelerometer, a first gyroscope, a first location detection device, a first two-dimensional pixilated detector, and memory for storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more first processors; capturing one or more first time-stamped images of a first environmental region using the first two-dimensional pixilated detector at a time when the first drone device is airborne; for each respective first time-stamped image of the captured one or more first time-stamped images, obtaining a respective set of meta data, the respective set including; rotational values obtained using the first gyroscope, the rotational values indicating a relative orientation of the first self-contained battery operated device with respect to a respective reference orientation at a time when the respective first time-stamped image is captured; and location information obtained using the first location detection device at a time when the respective first time-stamped image is captured; and sending, to a remote processing device, the one or more first time-stamped images and the respective sets of meta data for the one or more first time-stamped images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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