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John Connolly

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Drones' utility in course maintenance
« on: December 28, 2015, 01:13:12 PM »
What would be some of the important applications, if any, that drones can provide when taking care of a golf course?
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JESII

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2015, 01:43:20 PM »
How about if an infrared-type camera could give feedback on the health of the plant?
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Blake Conant

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2015, 01:56:12 PM »
Regular aerial photography to track golf course's evolution over multiple years. 
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John Kavanaugh

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2015, 01:59:22 PM »
How about just another toy to annoy golfers with. I remember back when I enjoyed the privacy golf afforded me.
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Dave Givnish

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2015, 02:05:26 PM »
Farmington (VA) is renovating the East Nine into a practice facility and 10 Executive holes designed by Coore/Crenshaw. The progress is communicated to the membership with a weekly video shot from a drone.


Here's a link to the first week on YouTube. FCC East Course Renovation: Week of December 11, 2015


I suspect that the quality will get a good deal better with more practice.
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JMEvensky

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2015, 02:14:05 PM »
Spying on members who don't fix pitch marks or properly rake bunkers.
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David_Tepper

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2015, 02:19:37 PM »
"Spying on members who don't fix pitch marks or properly rake bunkers." 

+1

Or replace/fill in divots! ;)
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Thomas Dai

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2015, 02:23:27 PM »
Quote from: David_Tepper on December 28, 2015, 02:19:37 PM
"Spying on members who don't fix pitch marks or properly rake bunkers." 
+1
Or replace/fill in divots! ;)


I was thinking more along the lines of dropping things on such golfers..... :)


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Doug Siebert

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2015, 03:49:38 PM »
Quote from: David Schmidt on December 28, 2015, 03:14:24 PM
Id love to see my club get one to bring drinks to people out on the course so they don't have to wait for the halfway.  I bet it's pay for itself in a month

Cart girls are preferable to drones for delivering drinks!
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Philip Hensley

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2015, 04:06:29 PM »
Drones would be a good Way for the pro shop to monitor pace of play, as opposed to the general useless course marshals
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Mike_Trenham

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2015, 08:42:17 PM »
I've heard of a course using a drone to chase the geese.
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Mike_Young

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2015, 09:34:05 PM »
Heres a drone at work today...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4rXt5JKweI
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Don Mahaffey

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2015, 09:41:04 PM »
there are some uses, but if it ever replaces boots on the ground in terms of monitoring course conditions, a no fly zone should be enforced.
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Doug Siebert

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2015, 01:09:46 AM »
Quote from: Philip Hensley on December 28, 2015, 04:06:29 PM
Drones would be a good Way for the pro shop to monitor pace of play, as opposed to the general useless course marshals

While not as "cool", a few tethered balloons with optical stabilized PTZ cameras could do the same without needing a "pilot". And make much less noise.
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Josh Stevens

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2015, 02:35:53 AM »
With good ground control points, UAV photogrammetry can give terrain models accurate to about 2-4cm in XYZ.  BUt it takes some planning, and struggles with vegetation

There are also some new LIDAR systems that can go on a large drone, and they will map terrain to extreme accuracy in 3 dimensions
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Andrew Simpson

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Re: Drones' utility in course maintenance
« Reply #15 on: December 30, 2015, 09:20:41 PM »
They are giving great results in agriculture with a very short flight time so could be used early to avoid annoying the members.
Though if you are speaking about courses where drink is supplied by cart girls, any time after noon and who'd notice them!
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