One of my favorite lines from the Alltech Symposium presentations so far was said by Dr. Pearse Lyons on stage Monday when he asked if a drone could deliver him a beer. That did not happen but he was using it as an example of how we’re learning ways to use new technology like UAV’s to do tasks for us.
During Symposium I met Jeb Smith, Sky Drone Studios, who was displaying and demonstrating his drones and services. Jeb says he’s mainly been working with real estate projects but has also started doing more work with farms. He will take his equipment out to a property and fly it with high definition cameras charging a half day or full day rate. He will provide you with the raw data or edit it into a video presentation for you. He builds his own vehicles too.
I talked with him and got him to demonstrate one of his drones as you will see in the video below, taken with ZimmGlass.