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June 19, 2007
Pict'Earth - UAV Aerial Photography Solutions
Back at the beginning of the year, I wrote about a video someone posted showing a guy flying a remote controlled plane (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV) and used a digital camera to take aerial photos and show them in Google Earth. The guy who created it is David Riallant, and his company Pict'Earth is located in France. He has now expanded his operation and has a new office in the USA, which is being run by Jeffery Johnson and Stewart Long. They have a new web site called PictEarthUSA.com. The new company has a system available which uses a basic remote controlled plane, Pict'Earth software, and a Nokia N95 as both the camera system and wireless broadband communicator. They offer both live and professional aerial image processing services. Not ony that, but they have recruited the efforts of the well-known Google Earth innovator Valery Hrosunov in Perm, Russia to develop the software for the image processing and display in GE. Check out their gallery of example photos.
Related:
- Remote controlled plane video
- High resolution photos from a UAV in Google Earth
- Driving a Car with a SpaceNavigator
Posted by FrankTaylor at June 19, 2007 09:19 AM
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Posted by: GPS_guy at July 8, 2007 12:30 AM
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Nice work on your UAV work and geo-scanning!
Pretty impressive stuff! In case you need to zoom in further distances, a device like a C-MIGITS III INS/GPS may be handy on future UAV or LiDAR projects. The C-MIGITS III is very popular for LiDAR, remote sensing, Digital Mapping Cameras (DMCs). It allows the user to "photo stitch" the acquired imagery by knowing the position, heading, and camera angle when each photo was taken. It has 10 Hz update rates on the INS, and 100 Hz on the IMU. This allows very high-speed location data to occur during flight, and hence more accurate photo-stitching.
For more info:
http://www.systron.com/PDFS/datasheets/CMIGITSIII.pdf