Best POE/ONVIF 180 Degree FOV Dome Camera?

[Noober]

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:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1684895-REG/axis_communications_02060_001_p3818_pve_13mp_outdoor_180.html

No idea if it would do what I require though. Too expensive to trial and error it.

 

[wittaj]

500 feet for birds with any lens sizes as small as they are on 180s will be difficult!

 

[mat200]

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:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1684895-REG/axis_communications_02060_001_p3818_pve_13mp_outdoor_180.html

No idea if it would do what I require though. Too expensive to trial and error it.

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 ..







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 ..



hmm ... you may need to stitch a few cameras together to get what you are looking for .. 500 feet is rather a long distance

 

[Noober]

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

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.

 

[Noober]

500 feet for birds with any lens sizes as small as they are on 180s will be difficult!

AI told me that this one can detect birds up to 500 feet away in the day. And we all know AI doesn't make mistakes.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1684895-REG/axis_communications_02060_001_p3818_pve_13mp_outdoor_180.html

 

[bigredfish]

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

 

[Noober]

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.

 

[wittaj]

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?

 

[bigredfish]

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.

The camera you mentioned is almost 1/2 less zoom than the top unzoomed pic.

Good luck

 

[Hank Weng]

180° cams are nice for coverage, but you’ll find the detail on small birds at 500 ft kinda weak. Best setup I’ve seen is pano for the wide view, then let a PTZ pick up once something’s detected. I’ve tried ACTi’s pano + PTZ combo and the hand-off works pretty smoothly.

 

[steve1225]

new Mini huble is a new release and contain all newest features (Xinghan AI models, AI-ISP video night processing)..

It should be in the similar price range as Axis you put (if you order by Andy)...

ps. please remember that NO ONE on the market is offering birds tracking on PTZ cameras.. Auto tracking will not follow automatically birds on the fly...