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Iceland Volcano: Behind-the-scenes with DJI and Good Morning America

Good Morning America aired a behind-the-scenes look at our expedition to the Holuhraun eruption in Iceland, during Ferdinand Wolf (Skynamic) and I flew DJI Inspire 1 quadcopters into the volcano and broadcasted live using built-in Lightbridge wireless HD video transmission.

Flying Inspire 1 into Iceland’s volcano with Good Morning America

(Written Feb 3, 2015) Hello, everyone! DJI has just returned (to the remote hut where we are staying) from making history with Good Morning America. We took meteorologist Ginger Zee on a tour of the inside of the erupting volcano at Holuhraun (in the Bardarbunga volcanic system in Iceland) using two Inspire 1 quadcopters, broadcasting ...

Behind-the-scenes during the ABC / Good Morning America shoot. We used Android devices (Sony Experia Z2, in this picture) to run the DJI Pilot app because iOS devices do not tolerate cold environments (strangely, they complain about being too hot!). Those of you who are interested in aerial UAV stuff can look at the telemetry ...

DJI Inspire 1 / Lightbridge / Atomos testing: I did some tests this morning with a production DJI Inspire 1 recording to an Atomos Ninja Blade via the HDMI output on the remote control. Inspire 1 has built-in Lightbridge, so it can output 720/60p to a local display or recorder over HDMI. HDMI cables are really ...

A fun morning of flying DJI Inspire 1s with Tested.com’s Norman Chan and Joey Fameli, Mythbuster’s Adam Savage, and volcano-diver Sam Cossman.

Expedition prep (otherwise known as drone porn).

What a lovely view this morning from Hunter’s Point in San Francisco. Shot on DJI Inspire 1.

I am fascinated by what waves and surge against rocks look like from the aerial perspective. Scale is often deceptive, and footage shot in real time can look like it is slowed down. In this case, I slowed down the footage even more by shooting with a DJI Inspire 1 quadcopter at 1080/60p (60 frames ...

Here is raw, aerial, behind-the-scenes footage from the CBS This Morning live broadcast at CES, during which I flew a DJI Inspire 1 quadcopter around behind the anchor. Note that we did three different live segments: a teaser, the main segment, and a web segment, each involving a take off and flight / hover around the hall. ...