It has been a while since our last update! The biggest news is we now process up to 25 geo-tagged images into high resolution Orthomosaics, DEM, DSM and 3D Models for free. The site now only accepts geo-tagged images and will only process imagery with the correct EXIF metadata/geo-tags.
ConservationDrones.Org:
Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich are doing some really interesting work with Drones. They have created a non profit organization called Conservation Drones (conservationdrones.org) with a mission to develop low-cost tools for conservation and research workers in developing countries! We mapped a large jungle canopy with an active Orangutan nest. More information on DM News and here.
Full orthomosaic of Orangutan Nest tract
3D Model of Danau Girang for ConservationDrones.org
Remote Sensing:
Using the geo-referenced orthomosaic that DroneMapper creates and opencv we can detect certain features and create shapefiles from them. Here the algorithm is looking for round objects of a certain size and attributes. If detections occur, a geo-referenced shapefile mask of the target is created! I am working to add different routines to count and classify different objects in the final orthomosaic.
Round object detection routine. Layers: Bing Aerial, DroneMapper Ortho, Round Objects Shapefile
Original geo-referenced orthomosaic and Bing Aerial layer
Line Detection Routine on Golf Course in CH.
Shapefile results. (modifications and improvements needed in order to adapt to a road detection scheme)
Comments
no problem. i am pretty sure conservation drones is using the ardupilot! they would have some more information on their site. :) thanks
If you can reveal the information, ill understant.
This is some kind of sensitive question, i think.
Wow, the imagery looks very professional. Congratulations for your work.
I wan to ask you the following, what software are you using as flight planner, and for mission planner (by mission i mean a software that can calculate the legs, or passes, the flight time, the area that you can mapp), just like the one of mavince.eu