Best POE/ONVIF 180 Degree FOV Dome Camera?

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Noober

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I'm looking for something I can mount on top of a roof that will give me 180 degree coverage of the sky for detecting birds in flight. It has to be able to provide a decent enough image 500 feet away for object detection to work, but preferably further. My goal is to programmatically split the image up and run object detection to locate any birds in flight, and then through my network, get a PTZ with zoom to try to track the bird and get quality footage of it in flight.

Recommendations?

The best one (it seems) I've found so far is this one:
No idea if it would do what I require though. Too expensive to trial and error it.
 
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Noober said:
I'm looking for something I can mount on top of a roof that will give me 180 degree coverage of the sky for detecting birds in flight. It has to be able to provide a decent enough image 500 feet away for object detection to work, but preferably further. My goal is to programmatically split the image up and run object detection to locate any birds in flight, and then through my network, get a PTZ with zoom to try to track the bird and get quality footage of it in flight.

Recommendations?

The best one (it seems) I've found so far is this one:
No idea if it would do what I require though. Too expensive to trial and error it.
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  1. 180 degree coverage of the sky for detecting birds in flight
  2. a decent enough image 500 feet away for object detection to work ( bird sized object ? )

hmmm .. ok, here are some 360 degree cameras ..





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Seems like they are better for parking lots ..

here are some 180 degree cameras, yet they will not give you the DORI ranges you want ..

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hmm ... you may need to stitch a few cameras together to get what you are looking for .. 500 feet is rather a long distance
 
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mat200 said:
  1. 180 degree coverage of the sky for detecting birds in flight
  2. a decent enough image 500 feet away for object detection to work ( bird sized object ? )

hmmm .. ok, here are some 360 degree cameras ..





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Seems like they are better for parking lots ..

here are some 180 degree cameras, yet they will not give you the DORI ranges you want ..

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hmm ... you may need to stitch a few cameras together to get what you are looking for .. 500 feet is rather a long distance
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Seems those 360 cameras require PTZ to get the 360 degrees so that won't work. It needs to have 180 degree field of view. I may have to stitch two cameras together but I hope to avoid that. I would think somebody would have made a product that already does what I'm looking for.
 
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bigredfish said:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1684895-REG/axis_communications_02060_001_p3818_pve_13mp_outdoor_180.html

A fixed 3.2mm 5MB lens detect birds at 500ft? Big birds maybe?



This is a 4MP camera with 5.4mm at 0 zoom and again at about 16mm zoom
Straight line is about 120ft from the camera, circle is about 500ft


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I'm interested mostly in eagles and sandhill cranes which are pretty big, but I'm not sure that camera would pick them up. Might though given it's in the sky and contrast should be good.
 
Noober said:
I'm interested mostly in eagles and sandhill cranes which are pretty big, but I'm not sure that camera would pick them up. Might though given it's in the sky and contrast should be good.
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The camera you mentioned is almost 1/2 less zoom than the top unzoomed pic.

Good luck
 
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