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Okay I get it so the drone corrects altitude to the fixed point but the ground drops away with the curvature of the earth and this is measured with the altimeter.

Can we load the Go Fast figures from the FLIR overlay into that software?

Drones also have altimeters and self regulate to the same altitude.

not sure when this was done but it is also unusually hot in the UK at the moment

Nice work Mick, I love the detective aspect to this.

If it didn't come directly from the military could this come from a Raytheon video? Is there a chance of obtaining longer segments to provide more context?

Its 6-10 feet big if that, cold, moving slowly and at 13000 feet, as far as we can tell it is as zoomed in as that military spec IR camera can do. So it's not an aircraft, it's not fast, it's not low. It fits the description of a bird or a weather balloon. So not only does it not seem worthy...

I'll try and stick a tracking marker ahead of where the object is and sync to it in a keyframe, then keep moving the tracking marker.

Simulating the non tracked part of the video with the ground tracking and saccades in Blender is tougher it seems. I'm not sure if the camera does some sort of auto ground tracking and then a person manually adjusts it 'ahead' of the object.

You need to interpolate or 'lerp' as it is known for smooth transition between your cartesians.

The video I made in blender starts at the tracked stage, I just set keyframes for the coordinates of the jet each second and set the framerate to 30fps and then added 660 frames to match the tracked time of 22 seconds.

Is there a list of timestamped coordinates for the tracked object in this thread?

Rough 1st draft proof of concept, whatever other disclaimers you need this is a try. Source: https://youtu.be/j1O4iBke2vo assumptions used in render Object is ~1 meter Object is stationary (clearly not the case in reality) FOV is 0.7 Video is 30 fps, tracking lasts 22 seconds, video is 660...

When I finally made what I consider to be a close approximation to the video in Blender the parallax looks closest with a fov of 0.7 and an object of 1 meter, the power of the ATFLIR is quite ludicrous this is tracking an object of that size from kilometers away. Hard part of the video is a sea...

Sounds like he did some good work there.

Just to let you know I've been working on recreating the GO FAST video in Blender, It's amazing how similar to the video a 2 meter object at the ranges in the video looks in Blender through a square 1.5 degree FOV camera against a simulated ocean textured background. Also a brief animation of...

This is why getting the trigonometry height calculation out there as a key part of debate, any speed calcs based on a low height are incorrect as the height cannot be low and the math to work out the height is based entirely on information in the FLIR overlay (no assumptions reasonable or...

To be honest the focus thing is a red herring, the height of the plane the angle of the ATFLIR and the radar range are all incompatible with the object being just above the surface. This is simple trigonometry and requires no deep understanding of optics.

Hi, IT nerd here to fight against the rising tide of ignorance.

Planes can turn in multiple ways though, they can bank, or use rudders or both and fighter jets may have thrust vectoring (I don't think an F/A 18 does) also fly-by-wire means the plane chooses how it turns depending on conditions. My main issue here is that the video is released as is by TTSA...