There's some or all of the functionality in GRASS, OSSIM, E-FOTO, and the NASA 
Vision Workbench. Making it all work as a webservice sounds tough to me.

I think you'll also have some challenges it that you probably only have low 
resolution and quite possibly low accuracy orthoimagery to control against, 
coarse (if any) DEMs, and a camera with a short focal length, no fiducials or 
calibration report. I wonder if simple warping will get you just about as far 
in terms of accuracy.

At Random Hacks of Kindness I started on some code that used SIFT to try to 
match UAV photos to control imagery and generate a GCP list that could be fed 
into gdalwarp. The UAV imagery did have some rough GPS positioning that limited 
the search space for the SIFT algorithm. It's still (argh) unfinished, but you 
can see the start here:

http://github.com/drwelby/UAV-Ortho

-Marc Pfister



From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Jeffrey Warren
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:36 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [OAM-talk] open source orthorectification for grassrootsmapping.org

Hi all - I'm looking for an open source way to do automated orthorectification 
as a web service to support http://grassrootsmapping.org balloon/kite mapping 
imagery.

Something that would generate GCPs and stitch imagery, and (even better) 
perhaps generate tiles.

I'm a bit new to rectification, any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jeff
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