[OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

[Robert Scott]

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