Converting GoPro to NIR lens (UK)

Cornscot · Jan 25, 2017

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has / knows a company in the UK that can can take a GoPro Hero3+ and convert it so it can capture NIR for NDVI work?

I have an Inspire 1 Pro so don't want (or can afford) to mess with the X5 camera so thinking of adapting the hero3+ which sits doing not-a-lot. I then have two mounting options, again which I would be grateful if anyone has done either of these successfully (@IrishSights ?):

1) Under the hull of the I1 and set to time lapse before getting airborne but these photos won't be geo-tagged so will that make it difficult to import into Drone Deploy or similar alongside the geo-tagged RGB photos from the X5 or

2) Adapt my Phantom 3 Advanced to somehow integrate the Hero3+ rather than the stock DJI (think this might be a no!)..

Thanks

The Editor · Jan 25, 2017

Cornscot said:
Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has / knows a company in the UK that can can take a GoPro Hero3+ and convert it so it can capture NIR for NDVI work?

I have an Inspire 1 Pro so don't want (or can afford) to mess with the X5 camera so thinking of adapting the hero3+ which sits doing not-a-lot. I then have two mounting options, again which I would be grateful if anyone has done either of these successfully (@IrishSights ?):

1) Under the hull of the I1 and set to time lapse before getting airborne but these photos won't be geo-tagged so will that make it difficult to import into Drone Deploy or similar alongside the geo-tagged RGB photos from the X5 or

2) Adapt my Phantom 3 Advanced to somehow integrate the Hero3+ rather than the stock DJI (think this might be a no!)..

Thanks

You would have to ask if they do GoPro's (sure they would have been asked before).

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IrishSights · Jan 25, 2017

I converted mine my self and mounted it underneath the battery compartment. It is possible to georeference the GoPro dataset. Create 2 point clouds, one from the X3 and one from the GoPro. Align the point clouds in the Open Source CloudCompare. Im not on the forum much lately and not got the time to workflow this at the minute, sorry.

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