Alpo Hassinen's site also links to http://www.smartplanes.se/
http://www.smartplanes.se/applications_e.html (in English) It isn't exactly clear how they make their mosaics - the white paper says "The image data of a flight mission can be further processed using the PAMS Internet service to derive a high resolution OrthoMosaic and/or a high density Digital Surface Model (DSM)". More: http://www.smartplanes.se/documents/PAMS-WhitePaper_eng.pdf PY On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Robert Scott <li...@humanleg.org.uk> wrote: > On Sunday 27 September 2009, Blumpsy wrote: >> One of the heroes is a forestry researcher by the name of Alpo Hassinen >> who works near the Finnish-Russian border. It's an inaccessible area, so >> he uses an R/C plane for taking aerial photographs. The documentary >> describes how all he has to do is select the area of interest in some >> mapping software, and how the plane then navigates itself, taking >> GPS-references photographs at certain intervals. >> >> This is as technical as the BBC get, so I contacted Alpo for some >> further info. >> >> It turns out they are using a turnkey solution called CropCam: >> http://www.cropcam.com > > The ground control system software [1] that accompanies the Paparazzi project > [2] is not too dissimilar from this. > > > robert. > > [1] http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/GCS > [2] http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Main_Page > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
