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AIRBORNE 

PROJECTS

 

DROTAG

 - Sony Alpha Series Image Tagging

Quick Start Guide

Airborne  Projects  specializes  in  building 
drone solutions with emphasis on telemetry 
gathering and integration with avionics and 
automatic flight systems.

DroTag

 is a small board that simply sits 

between your 

Sony Alpha

 Series 

camera and your 

Pixhawk

, allowing 

you to plan the camera trigger events 
and have the 

pictures taken automati-

cally  geo-tagged on the fly

.

Upon landing you only need to take out 
the card from the DroTag board and 
the images are immediately available 
and ready to be visualized/used by your 
mapping software.

Summary of Contents for DROTAG

Page 1: ...d automatic flight systems DroTag is a small board that simply sits between your Sony Alpha Series camera and your Pixhawk allowing you to plan the camera trigger events and have the pictures taken au...

Page 2: ...ethod 4 6 Flight Checklist 4 6 1 Flight checklist Detailed Explanation 4 7 In Flight Capabilities 5 7 1 Manual triggering from RC 5 8 After Flight Capabilities 6 8 1 microSD card care 6 8 2 File struc...

Page 3: ...le telemetry output found on your flight controller Pixhawk APM NAVIO etc 2 The power to the DROTAG is supplied by the autopilot s telemetry port 3 The microSD card that came with your package is inse...

Page 4: ...right Navigate and select Focus Mode Navigate the options available until you find and select one saying MF Rotate the lens ring until your camera says it is on 4 2 Setup your TELEM Port Parameters T...

Page 5: ...seconds If the time between triggers in your mission plan is less than 3 seconds some pictures may be missed or triggered out of turn producing undesirable results To achieve always the best results...

Page 6: ...Verify camera and cables are secure and away form the propeller s path 2 Verify the DROTAG has its microSD card inserted 3 Power On the camera and check battery 4 Optional Make shure that the camera s...

Page 7: ...eceivers On the Pixhawk when the LED is green the GPS is locked and this item is passed 7 Listen for 2 consecutive camera triggers The 2 camera triggers are a way for you to know that DROTAG was able...

Page 8: ...croSD card If it does not exist a new directory is created and pictures will written to it The prefix of X in the file name also makes the image have a unique file name making it useful to track the s...

Page 9: ...ormation DROTAG relies on several open source projects Airborne Projects takes open source licenses very seriously and we have a public repository for the modifications made to the open source project...

Page 10: ...o light If the sensor is too sensitive to light it will capture noise or in our case pixels which don t represent any scene data A low value is desired so that the noise is minimized but enough sensit...

Page 11: ...utter_speed 1 3000 Possible values for the Shutter Speed of the Sony Alpha Series are You can choose any shutter speed provided it has a multiple of 10 in the denominator A range of tried shutter spee...

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