Originally Posted by
IronPawz
I keep having this nagging idea. What if you have a fleet of drones / RC quad copters around a city programmed so if the earth starts to shake (perhaps even into a network so they can tell a quake is coming their way) they take off and start filming.
You see earth quake footage from something attached to the shaking ground but what does it look like from the air? So there are all sorts of issues like windy days, air perhaps from swaying buildings but likely with planning you can get around most of this by location. What do the buildings look like from that not moving point? What would a room look like from the air like a super market (you always see their feed but again the camera is attached to the building).
Some cameras have stability gear so potentially you can do this from the ground to some extent (or create a bigger earth quake specific machine for this). Suspension camera able to rock up and down / side/ side with the motion of the platform.
You can program a drone to do a given task. You can detect a quake. They only last for a few minutes and clones all do at least 6 minutes with a camera (cheap ones).
The footage would be worth plenty to the media and it would be great I am sure for science.
Then there is the other idea. You have a bunch of clones where one is always in the air while the others charge and they take turns (some can do 30 minutes). Weather again is an issue but I think the idea generally is interesting and given I only ever crap on in Kiwibiker I'm putting it here to get it off my mind.
I'm not much of a drone expert but I am about to get a basic one and I work in Wellington so perhaps I will try sort something basic out (I'll try find something programmable and in budget).
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