This has been done with winged aircraft about 1 month ago in LA with war-driving
The pictures you take would be on a memory card, but all the cameras i've seen have to be placed in the on-transfer picture mode to view the pictures, ie: the memory card becomes a drive on the laptop
Your your camera has a video output, you could stream the video to the laptop on the ground via wireless.
either way the pictures would NOT be in real time, they would be viewed or streamed in a separate SECOND operation, not as they are taken,
The only way you could stream the video would be via a digital video camera. not a still picture camera.
Wireless would have no problem going LOS 3k feet, it just has to connect between the two data radios and then start the transfer protocol
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hi gain antennas are out if they are directional,,, you would have to place the heliocopter in the correct orientation for the antenna to work... An OMNI (4-14dbi vertical) on the bottom of the helicopter and a sector (180degree) on the truck could pass the data)
no difference between wi-max and wi-fi,,, the stumbling block is the still picture camea,,, you can't do it in real time.
your going to see either 10mb or 54 mb depending on the connection speed, signal, etc.
Good luck adam, but I really don't think your going to be able to do this in real time with a Still Camera. It's going to take two operations,
1.) take the picture 2.) transfer the image to the laptop and to the groundBob Smith
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