Episodes
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
New Format! Our usual host, Darren Smith is joined by Soar COO, Neil Prentice and Birdi Founder, Sebastian Robertson for fly-over of Birdi, a unique Australian-based platform directly connecting drone service providers and potential clients.
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Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Satellites capture more electromagnetic energy than is visible to the naked eye. Advanced processing techniques as described by our guest, Jose Manuel Lattus, explore and exploit the both ultra-violet and infra-red energy for the identification of minerals and highly variable environmental conditions.
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Paul Dewar has been flying UAVs since the late 90s when he first strapped a camera under a remotely controlled helicopter. Since then Paul has founded Drone Pilots, a UAV-focused consultancy and is also the chief pilot for Aquilla Aero, an Australian-based manufacturer of large fixed-wing composite UAVs. Paul's insight on what it takes to get a newly designed UAV off the ground shows us just how involved the process is.
Saturday May 09, 2020
Bonus Episode - Gear Review with Nathan Lu: Contixo's F24 Pro GPS Drone
Saturday May 09, 2020
Saturday May 09, 2020
Nathan Lu of Long Beach, California has the distinction of being Soar's most prolific image uploader. And while he's young compared to the average mid-40's dronnie, Nathan has flown everthing with four props that he can get his hands on. Starting with El Cheapo 'toy bin' level drones to smart GPS drones and on to FPVs, there's nothing Nathan isn't willing to have a go with.
Whether young or old, you'll love Nathan's enthusiasm for drones and his frank and forthright review of the Contixo F24 Pro
Friday May 01, 2020
Episode 13 - Microscopic AG. Crop investigation by drone using Taranis Ag
Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
Two of Australia's premeire agricultural drone service providers, Stratus Imaging & Stevtech have partnered to `advanced crop management using Taranis Ag's AI-powered high resolution crop management system. While traditional multispectral images have served the industry well, Taranis ag has implemented a game changing system to increase ground resolution to 0.03m to facilitate insect identification, plant disease, and initial emergence of new crop growth. All while rapidly increasing the acquisition time.
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Drones are helping to develop niches in all walks of business. Rich Charpentier of RLC Design in Flagstaff, Arizona has traveled many roads in his career. Quite literally as after winding down a career in network and communications infrastructure, Rich hit the road in an Airstream trailer to travel and vlog before it was a thing. The use of a drone to compliment his videography was fundamental in the development of construction progression reporting for companies throughout the sunshine state. Tune in for insight on how developing your videography, mapping skills, and client deliverables can translate to providing competitive and high value services.
Thursday Apr 09, 2020
Thursday Apr 09, 2020
We are joining Aaron Kingaman of Lucint Systems of Portland, Oregon. Lucint provides modular multispectral mapping cameras for use on both drones and manned aircraft. In addition to that Lucint provides a variety of services, notably orthorectification, camera calibration, and builds custom camera arrays to suit the agricultural, municipal power, and surveying industries.
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Soar is joined by Tayo Akiwumi of Spacevee, specialists at improving image visualisation issues caused by smoke, haze, and airborne particulates. Tayo has a compelling story, how his love of the earth's history and deep desire to utilise remote sensing technology for identifying possible archaeological sites has led to the development of new technology to improve image visualisation and utilisation through haze removal, limiting the effects of smoke and pollution on satellite images, and for textural improvement in featureless images.
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Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Episode 4 - Ed Ricker
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Darren Smith of Soar chats with Ed Ricker, a YouTube veteran delivering instructional drone and videography videos since 2013. Ed has steadily gained traction in the YouTube arena with his most popular video 'Beginners Guide Part 1 - DJI Mavic Pro' garnering 3,745,588 views since February 2017.