On Saturday 29 October 2005 19:20, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > There is a neat flightgear connection here which I've probably mentioned > before, but would like to mention again (with pictures.) > > http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_2/ > > This is a manually flown UAV (also pictured on the same page.) It has > an onboard camera angled 45 degrees down. It also has a gps/imu sending > data to the ground via a radio modem, so we can feed that into > flightgear and show a live synthetic view from the aircraft > perspective. We can angle the flightgear view 45 degrees down and it > matches pretty darn close with the real camera view. We had a guy > create a small chunk of photo real scenery for the area so it's really > neat to see the synthetic and video views match tree for tree, road for > road, building for building.
That is extremely nifty. I'm suprised you can get that sort of 'resolution' in the GPS/IMU downlink. Glad you got back in the air so soon too :) -- Dave Martin http://museum.bounce-gaming.net _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
