Drone Geo-Tagger
Control Parrot's AR Drone with your phone for any geo-tagging uses, such as Search and Rescue, surveying damage after natural disasters, surveying weather conditions, and other points of interest that you see with your drone.
About our Project
We've prototyped an app that can fly the drone completely through your personal smartphone (or web browser) and tag locations you are interested in. Upon tagging the location, the drone spans a picture and sends location information and pictures back to a server and can be pushed to your phone or a web browser. You can visualize the point of interest on an easy to read map. Each point of interest also shows weather data courtesy of Weather Channel's API.
What we used
Socket.io for realtime communication between Drone and backend.
NodeJS is what we run on our servers for backend processing.
Ionic and [Google Maps API] are used for the mapping app.
Weather Channel's API is used to pull weather data for tagged locations.
AR-drone webflight is used to create an extensive plugin system to control different aspects of drone and is used in our flight app.
Some sweet pictures
Flight App
This is the initial starting screen if vide feed is turned off. The user can use the navigational controls on the right to control the drone. The Tag button is used to tag a location and optionally snapping a photo to send to the backend servers.
Here we can see a few tagged locations as the drone was flying about the city. In the screenshot, you can see that one of the tags is open and we are looking at weather a few weather conditions at that location. Each tagged location has weather data associated with it and can be pulled up by clicking on the red markers.
See it in action
Copyright
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015 James Fielder, Joseph Milazzo
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