> RC airplanes aren't cheaper for two reasons: > 1. RC airplanes (and any civilian-operated UAV) has significant flight > restrictions - distance and altitude. Flying at low altitude (under > 500 feet MSL), you end up with a higher spatial resolution but you > have to stitch together many more images to cover the same extent as a > single image taken from an aircraft flying at, say, 2000 feet MSL. > Selecting good shots and correcting the imagery for hundreds of images > ends up costing more than the difference in operating an RC plane and > a regular aircraft.
Re: stitching together many images. Is not this a software and automation issue? In the future, can we expect this process to become completely automated and therefore cheap? nick *********************************************************************** WARNING: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain legally privileged, confidential or private information and may be protected by copyright. You may only use it if you are the person(s) it was intended to be sent to and if you use it in an authorised way. No one is allowed to use, review, alter, transmit, disclose, distribute, print or copy this e-mail without appropriate authority. If this e-mail was not intended for you and was sent to you by mistake, please telephone or e-mail me immediately, destroy any hardcopies of this e-mail and delete it and any copies of it from your computer system. Any right which the sender may have under copyright law, and any legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this e-mail is not waived or destroyed by that mistake. It is your responsibility to ensure that this e-mail does not contain and is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by third parties or replication problems (including incompatibility with your computer system). Opinions contained in this e-mail do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Queensland Department of Main Roads, Queensland Transport or Maritime Safety Queensland, or endorsed organisations utilising the same infrastructure. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
