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UAS (drone) Footprint Geometries Calculated in PostGIS with SFCGAL
UAS (drone) Footprint Geometries Calculated in PostGIS (viewed in QGIS nightly), taking into account relative elevation, bearing, pitch, and roll:
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UAS (drone) Footprint Geometries Calculated in PostGIS — Individual Footprint
UAS (drone) Footprint Geometries Calculated in PostGIS (viewed in QGIS nightly), taking into account relative elevation, bearing, pitch, and roll, this time just one:
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UAS (drone) Footprint Geometries Calculated in PostGIS with SFCGAL — for real...
In my earlier post, I made a claim that SFCGAL was used in this figure: It dawned on my afterwards, while I was using 3D, I hadn’t actually employed any of the analysis goodies that come with SFCGAL....
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Drone Pointilism
Just an image today. Image of UAS derived points using structure from motion.
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Someone is wrong on the internet…
Ok @Mapbox, I’ve given you enough grace. I pulled the grumpy-old-man thing with Kenneth Field from ESRI a couple of weeks ago, and ended up apologizing. If i only give ESRI a few hours of grace, 3...
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Airspace is complicated — and so I abuse PostGIS once again
Let’s ignore for a moment the drone hobbiest / enthusiast. What is the shape of airspace for airplanes and commercial and government unmanned aircraft flying under Certificates of Authorization, and...
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Airspace is complicated — and so I abuse PostGIS once again — Reprise…
In the previous post: http://smathermather.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/airspace-is-complicated-and-so-i-abuse-postgis-once-again/ we explore the 3D shape and complexity of controlled airspace. Now here’s...
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Airspace — A deep rabbit hole
In previous maps we looked at Class B, C, and D airspace. Let’s add in Class E0 and E5… (not yet in 3D): (Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL) Map showing...
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OpenDroneMap — Orthophotos and Textured Mesh (cont.)
(Credit goes to Brandon Garman for the graphic above. It’s part of a very nice sUAS graphic he’s putting together at the moment.) Following up on the earlier post on the addition of orthophotos and...
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OpenDroneMap — Orthophotos and Textured Mesh (testing…)
A few new features are about to land on OpenDroneMap. Among those features, we have great work led and implemented by Spotscale for orienting our textured meshes so that Z is up: and auto-exporting an...
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OpenDroneMap — Orthophotos and Textured Mesh (Habitats)
ODM shows some promise in mapping out microhabitats as on display with Michele Tobias & Alex Mandel’s dataset of hot air balloon derived images of Coal Oil Point Reserve, Goleta, CA. Here is one of...
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OpenDroneMap — Orthophotos and GCPs
No docs yet for orthophoto generation and the use of GCPs in OpenDroneMap, but for the early adopters, check out this branch of OpenDroneMap: https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap/tree/ortho-gcp...
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OpenDroneMap — Orthophotos, textured mesh, ground control points, oh my!
Spotscale’s texturing, orthophotos, and ground control have landed on the main branch for OpenDroneMap. No docs written yet, but an orthophoto and properly oriented textured mesh will be autogenerated...
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OpenDroneMap — Now with animated GIFs
Ok. I confess, clickbait. OpenDroneMap won’t make the animated gifs for you. But come on! it can make the 3D models which you can view in Meshlab or where ever, and then create animated gifs. Ok ok. I...
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OpenDroneMap — GCP file format
Introduction: So much documentation to catch up on for OpenDroneMap. Probably the most important missing element is documenting the ground control point file format. This will be a file name...
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OpenDroneMap Video for FOSS4GNA
Thanks to some brilliant work by our Interpretive Technology Technician, we now have a little video for FOSS4GNA on OpenDroneMap. Come see my presentation next week in San Francisco, Weds. at 13:30...
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OpenAerialMap, OpenImageryNetwork, MapKnitter, OpenTerrain, and OpenDroneMap
This tweet: Let's brainstorm how @publiclab's MapKnitter, @openaerialmap and @opendronemap can work together! http://t.co/qkbGmNsZ48 — MapKnitter (@MapKnitter) May 29, 2015 is the beginning of some...
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OpenAerialMap, OpenImageryNetwork, MapKnitter, OpenTerrain, and OpenDroneMap...
Citing my previous post, let’s move on to more specifics on my thoughts regarding the integration of OpenAerialMap, OpenDroneMap, and MapKnitter as projects. OpenDroneMap <3 OpenAerialMap....
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MSF Canada Drone Day follow-up
Dirk’s MSF Canada Drone Day is officially the first blog post I have “re-blogged”. Please read: https://smathermather.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/msf-canada-drone-day/ or better yet here:...
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