RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photosautomatically

2010-01-22 Thread Streithorst, Kip
As an Opticks committer, I can say it does not do that out-of-the-box. You could write something using our C++, Python or IDL interfaces. We have no current plans to add this capability, since the focus of Opticks is MASINT and non-literal exploitation. Kip -Original Message- From: disc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically

2010-01-22 Thread Stefan Steiniger
I am not sure what Opticks (opticks.org) can do by now really since I checked it last time... but you may have a look. If you find something can you report back? so I can update my FOS GIS projects paper/map I am writing on. The not complete image of the software map 2009 is here: https://sou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Mandel
I've been using Hugin in an attempt to do this process. While the control point generation works out ok (note there are some licensing restrictions due to patents in all the current algorithms) the stitching never comes out quite right because of hugin's insistence on warping to a projection that a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically

2010-01-22 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know a open source tool to stitch a bunch of aerial > photographs automatically by detecting similar pixelareas? > I know that GRASS is pretty good in processing images, but I there's no > funtion to patch

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Waters
I'm aware of some semi-automatic stitching of areal imagery using Hugin http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Jeff has used it with video frames from a camera attached to a kite: http://unterbahn.com/2010/01/kite-video-generation-of-aerial-imagery/ And I'm very interested in using Hugin and other Panora

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically

2010-01-22 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:58:30PM +0100, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know a open source tool to stitch a bunch of aerial > photographs automatically by detecting similar pixelareas? > I know that GRASS is pretty good in processing images, but I there's no > funtion

[OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically

2010-01-22 Thread Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.
Hi, does anybody know a open source tool to stitch a bunch of aerial photographs automatically by detecting similar pixelareas? I know that GRASS is pretty good in processing images, but I there's no funtion to patch a bunch of aerial photos by detecting similarities in overlapping areas, I guess.