Hello everyone, this is my first post.
I just discover ArduPilot today while I was doing a second research for alternatives for my business (or the business I want to start).
Well let me give you a little introduction of myself.
Im a 32 years old Argentinian software developer (retired, currently not doing it profesionaly, just for hobby), living in Ecuador, 2 months ago I was looking for some idea for start a business, but I was looking for something that I would love to do, every day, not the tipically boring work, so from one thing to another, rasperry pi to parrot, dji at the end I found that I wanted to start an Aerial Photography and Film business using drones.
My cousin have a helicopter fumigation business, so I asked him for contacts in the Ecuatorian Civil Aviation, to ask about legislation/laws that involve drones and he asked me what I was going to do.
Talking a little, he told me that he would like to get a dron to make “remote sensing” of plantation using NDVI tech but that he had enought stress with his own business and decline to do it, so if I want to do it I could work with him, so he sent me links about NDVI tech and some systems already made for it.
For example mosaicmill.com/applications/ … lture.html
That system cost ~$30.000, its exactly what I need but it is so far away from my budget so I started my research for alternatives.
Then I went to DJI and I started to get numbers ($$$) for building a SpreadWings 900+ with a modificated camera, but it is still around $10.000, and i couldnt even find their PC ground station software, just the IPAD vertion, who has not even 50% of features of the PC version
So I found a guy who can modify some cameras (mostly dslr) to put in the DJI’s dron and make the magic (NDVI) and I asked him if he could modify the new DJI’s dron camera, the Inspire1’s and he said it can be done, not 100% sucesful guaranteed, but he can try. So it would make my budget go down to, lets say around $5.000, but risking that maybe the modification cant be done, and/or the gimbal can be damaged.
Also, the Inspire 1 looks like an amazing product, but it have lack of few features, like a real flight plan autonomous flight with autoshooting (for orthophoto).
And well, Im here know, couse i was looking for autopilots alternatives for mixing MosaicMIll’s orthophoto processing software (without their drone) + some cheaper dron system that can handle flight planning for autonomous flight.
As you see I have low to non knowledge/experience with Drones but I like it and I know I can learn really fast, I can make myself and share apps or features for what I need and more, but I would need some help at beginning, like, Drones options (quadcopters) where I can use ArduPilot.
I hope that I made me understand, english is not my first language and that you didnt got bored with my story 
Thanks and I hope to get involved in the community, really, the few pages (wiki) I just check, looks like an amazing project
