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by miahi 1284 days ago
There is another reason why (especially cheap/"normal") thermal cameras have low frame rates. Basically higher (than 9!) fps cameras can be restricted for export and travel under ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations).

https://www.flircameras.com/export_conditions
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H8crilA 1284 days ago
How is it that can I just buy this drone, then? It fields a 640 × 512 px camera working at 30 fps:

https://www.dji.com/mavic-2-enterprise-advanced

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05 1284 days ago
Because Teledyne FLIR is a US company and DJI isn’t?

Edit: also according to the specs it’s 160x120@9fps

https://www.dji.com/mobile/mavic-2-enterprise

640x480 isn’t native sensor size.

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H8crilA 1283 days ago
Enterprise advanced != enterprise. I'm quite sure it's higher than 160x120. This toy costs about 5k USD.

But yeah it must be that it is a non US company. Puts into question the utility of this ban. These mavics (all models, and not only mavics) fly in huge quantities over the front line in Ukraine.

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