Multirotors Aerial photos and Pointclouds

[J.T.]

I've been experimenting with Photosynth and the amazing point clouds it can output, Here are a few rather lame examples I have done...
http://photosynth.net/userprofilepage.aspx?user=JimPA&content=Synths

I was wondering if anyone has taken it a step further and produced some usable photogrammetry, DEM’s.

Cheers,

Jim.

 

[Droider]

Hi J.T.

whats microsoft sliverlight? When I clicked to veiw one of your images it downloaded and tried to install this
Dave

 

[Kilby]

It's basically MS's version of flash. A way to present rich media with animations & so on.

 

[Droider]

Git to be honest never heard of it.. whats it all about?

 

[J.T.]

It's just a way of joining and displaying loads of photo's. The interesting part for me is the point cloud it produces which in the right hands can be made into a 3D model just by taking ordeary photos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emM2FzjHQrQ

 

[Gary Mortimer]

Funnily enough I played making one today with just a point and shoot on my hexa, mostly to get the camera working right.

My partner and I have created DEMs with point clouds but as we do it commercially now I'm not telling you how ;-)

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=df2bf33c-c817-4bbf-9a53-8f93659d79e7 I am very lucky to live in the top floor flat here.

Heres one that goes a bit further from last year.

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=5d0c68c4-9d93-4d2f-80d6-bf5fc8d77825

Structure from motion is the next big thing in UAS sensing, it makes life much much easier.

I even have a blog about the subject... although I don't do much there.

http://www.photosynth.ning.com

Photosynth is not the entire answer but its a good way of making a point cloud. I am now heading to the Three Fyshes, its in my second synth ;-)

 

[J.T.]

Fantastic, an expert in da house. I wonder if I buy you a few,-too many- beers down the Three Fyshes you would divlge your DEM secrets.

All the best.

 

[J.T.]

More modelling software. Not having much success with this but maybe worth a experiment.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/photo_scene_editor/