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I'd be interested in researching this further. Do you have a reference? I find the rule preposterous, and highly insulting - even impeding on my- or anyone elses- free will. Unauthorised maps? Who needs to authorise maps?
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I'd be interested in researching this further. Do you have a reference? I find the rule preposterous, and highly insulting - even impeding on my- or anyone elses- free will. Unauthorised maps? Who needs to authorise maps?
There are many regulations in many countries. Also the air regs vary from place to place in the same country. You need to consult the air maps.
You may be able to do "anything" where you live but try flying anything over the residence of your local head of state and see what happens. (survivors may like to re-tell their experiences here :-)
What may be fine for photoing an archaeological sight is a field will get you arrested (at best) when you balloon strays a km and finds itself over an unmarked military installation. Some places are more sensitive than others and they don't always tell you beforehand.
This all stems from a surveying trip I was going on the ruins of the fort were, we discovered, not to far from a "secret" military staging area. We were foreigners in the country :-)
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Start with the AIP (Aeronautical Information Publication) of your own country.
In my country, Finland, the current aerial photographing regulations are pretty liberal. The most important prohibited photo targets are military installations and penitentiary units. When I started the aerial photographing (a couple of tens of years ago) all negatives had to be given in for inspection before copying. Also, the list of prohibited targets was much longer.
AFAIK, the same targets are banned in all ICAO countries.
You may be surprised to notice that most maps are else accurate, but there are things that are not mapped for public distribution.
-- Tauno Voipio tauno voipio (at) iki fi
Another low bitrate satellite service that is available worldwide is Inmarsat D+. This provides bi-directional communication to small mobile terminals most places more that 5 degrees away from the poles. The smallest terminal available is the SAT-201 which is around 4.5 inches in diameter and 2 inches tall. More info from
Ian
Thank you for the link and information. It is very intereting. On their brochures
I'm afraid our applications requires almost continious communication between ground station and balloon at 1200-19200 baud and that's why Satamatics's terminals would not be appropriate for our application. But it is good for me to learn the existance of such an alternatives. Thank you.
How they charge their services? Does cost defined by the amount of data communicated ? Do you know how much it cost?
Thank you
Leo
Thanks - Magnus pointed me to Skywave's Inmarsat-D+ products, and that kind of opened the funnel for me, I've been looking at all sorts of options. They basically fall into three categories:
The eye-opener for me is that all this stuff is really COTS and really cheap (compared to what I thought it would cost, anyway); it looks as if
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