It's still in the idea stages, why my original idea of sending an FPGA doing active video processing would be computationally and energy expensive, where transm

It's still in the idea stages, why my original idea of sending an FPGA doing active video processing would be computationally and energy expensive, where transmitting a low-latency signal to a processing unit on the ground wouldn't cost an arm and a leg. I'm looking at a ZYNQ-7000 board because the free eBook by Xilinx looked very approachable to a newbie at hardware design. If optimized properly, I'd hope to be able to integrate the quadcopter controls onto a better fpga and be a single unit. It's gonna be an all-summer project.