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Aerial Pics (Proof of concept)

Posted by Jerry Cresp on September 14, 2011 at 10:00pm

I have just ordered my first ArduPilot.

Attached are my 'proof of concept' pictures.

The plane is a 'foamie' home design (also rigged with lights for night flights).

121 pics were taken with an iPhone at 2 sec intervals at an estimated height of 25m; auto stitched with Photoshop and rectified with 6 control points from Hypertiles.

I just need ArduPilot to control the flight path.

I now need to find a plane that will carry 2 cameras (Colour and NIR).

I have attached a Google Earth KML if you want to see the site. Use HyperTiles to see a better view.

The eventual aim is to fly crops for farmers.

121 pics stitched.jpg

Foamie home built.jpg

site for GE.kml

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Jerry Cresp September 30, 2011 at 7:54pm

Just found the attached in a local Australian paper.

'Only in America'.

I am just wondering what the implications are for the rest of us??

drone AGE.jpg

https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3692278683?profile=original
Jerry Cresp September 30, 2011 at 7:35pm

I just found the attached in a local Australian paper.
Only in America.
I wonder what the implications are for the rest of us??
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Michael Pursifull September 15, 2011 at 12:01am

Very nice, thank your for sharing! I will be following your project with great interest, as I'm also very interested in aerial photography/imaging. I was just thinking yesterday that I haven't seen much in the way of photo stitching and how nice it would be to see someone generate some imagery, even if it is not APM driven. And lo! Here it is! Thank you.

Do you have an NIR unit picked out?
Jerry Cresp September 14, 2011 at 10:02pm

Further info attached.

4 sample iPhone 512x384 pics.pdf

HyperTiles site.jpg