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mobydickofdopeness
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Using drones to hunt mushrooms?
#23893307 - 12/04/16 10:01 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Has anyone here used drones to hunt mushrooms before?
I figure this could work in fields that were difficult to access, or just too exposed. The drone could fly at low altitude and scan beneath it and record video, then you can review the video later too see if anything was growing.
In more advanced versions, the drone could use visual recognition to tell you where mushrooms were growing, possibly even IDing them, and even picking them for you!
Edited by mobydickofdopeness (12/04/16 10:03 AM)
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Mattisfat
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On a scale from 1 - stoned...how much are you craving brownies right now
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Colonel
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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: Mattisfat]
#23893432 - 12/04/16 10:57 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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You have good intentions, that could work in specific situations i guess. But i see it being very impractical. The best finds are the ones that are hidden..
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mobydickofdopeness
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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: Colonel]
#23893629 - 12/04/16 12:02 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think it's something we're definitely going to see in the near future, as drone tech gets better and better.
Imagine you have a drone with a good battery and/or runs on solar power. And this drone can use GPS. So you could be sitting at home, you look on google maps and see a cow pasture a few miles away. You program a drone with those GPS coordinates and hop in the shower. The drone flies by itself to the location and starts scanning low to the ground. Other cameras will help it avoid cows and other obstacles. Using machine learning image-recognition algorithms it can recognize what mushrooms are compared to other things like grass, flowers, etc. Then it can have a claw to pick the mushrooms and put them in a little sack.
And when it's done, it flies right back to your doorstep. You get out of the shower and your drone is sitting back in its charging station with a sack full of mushrooms for you to sort through.
It can totally happen!!!
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Ancestoralbeings
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Kind of feel like it's disrespectful to the mushrooms. The whole point of hunting is the fun and feeling of finding them while walking around man. People have done it for centuries.
This also sounds a little bit lazy. I mean it would probably work and save time.
But your disconnected from nature.
There's always a way to get to the mushroom with your natural body.
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DavidReishi
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My girlfriend and I were just talking about this. Could work for checking your known spots too.
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mobydickofdopeness
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Oh I agree with you. It's just that in some cases when you can't physically access certain pieces of land (due to natural obstacles, trespassing concerns, public visibility concerns) the drone method could step in to enable "access". Hell, maybe even give it some night-vision technology so it could go under the cover of darkness. How cool would that be??
It's probably best suited for fields and other open areas. Forests and other places with lots of trees would not be hospitable to a low-flying drone.
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elprawn
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No, but I think Google Street View is great for finding wood-chip beds.
I know that's not really on topic, only ish, but I wanted to share it.
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Hunter hunter
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Great idea actually. There is a spot fenced off I'd like to check but very public. Just hide somewhere or sit in your car a few blocks away.
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doctorghosty
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I like this ideas also, it would be great at limiting exposure in fields you don't have permission to pick in to instances where you'd know 100% you were going into collect the goods and get out fast
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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: doctorghosty] 3
#23894344 - 12/04/16 04:08 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I wish it was legal to shoot drones down!
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Hunter hunter
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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: Ran-D]
#23894352 - 12/04/16 04:11 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Ran-D said: I wish it was legal to shoot drones down! 
Fuck yes. I read somewhere the police paid for drones that were shot down. I hate drones too, but I'd like it if they helped find free drugs.
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Ran-D



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I just saw a story about cops using drones which makes me even more
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wicca mixer
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Going by experience hunting for mushies, the drone idea is good in theory but in reality it won't work. Not unless it has extremely high definition and a very good identification computer program that can be as good as the human eye and brain. I find hunting mushies (liberty caps) best when the sky is overcast, and if the suns shining on the grass it can make it really difficult to see. I tend to adopt a deer eye view when I look for mushies and scan the ground.
Maybe the drone idea might work for finding cubensis, but they don't grow in my country naturally and other types of magic mushrooms tend to be a lot smaller.
I'm sure if you were a good computer programmer and had the money for a drone with a very high definition camera, you could eventually get it working with some success but that would depend on how good you were with writing an identification program.
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doctorghosty
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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: wicca mixer] 1
#23894423 - 12/04/16 04:34 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm just talking cubes, the technology has a long way to go before it's helpful for anything else
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Byrain

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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: doctorghosty]
#23894655 - 12/04/16 05:58 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Its an expensive, impractical, overly conspicuous and marginally useful technology for hunting cubes. It could be good for surveying habitat, but if you are doing that on private land that you would have to trespass to access a drone is a good way to alert the property owners to pay more attention. Especially considering that it would have to be very sensitive and sophisticated to provide enough data to even know if cubes are there.
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doctorghosty
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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: Byrain]
#23895342 - 12/04/16 10:05 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Forget it guys, Byrain has spoken.
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Mr Piggy
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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: doctorghosty]
#23895391 - 12/04/16 10:31 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Huh, I guess rural Oregon is different. Flying a drone around someone's property is a damn fine way to be out one drone.
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Byrain

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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: doctorghosty]
#23895511 - 12/04/16 11:17 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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You don't have to agree with me, I thought this was a discussion.
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doctorghosty
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Re: Using drones to hunt mushrooms? [Re: Byrain]
#23896046 - 12/05/16 07:28 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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It was and then you came in with all your logic and practicality 
I was far too pie in the sky about an eye in the sky.
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