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Software
See: Image Collection CodeRepository
Hardware
Flight computer: A Raspberry Pi with a 32GB microSD card is sufficient
Camera: The same one used at competition (e.g. the $200 CV Camera )
Flight
The drone typically flies at a height of 40-60 metres above ground level.Find the drone height in the appropriate AEAC document: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ARCHS22/overview
Data Cleaning
Once images have been collected, any image with features of interest (e.g. landing pads) are kept, and the rest are discarded. This can be parallelized by uploading the images to a folder on OneDrive and creating a signup sheet so that members process a few hundred images at a time.
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The 3 directories now contain the dataset and are ready for training.