On 21 Apr., 20:25, Syncra <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to Hugin and I am wondering how powerful this software could be to > stitch together aerial photos in order to reproduce a detailed map of a > large area. > > The input photos would be taken by a UAV in a kind of matrix where each > photo should overlap with the following. How can this process be automated?
You're not the first one to ask this. There is one big problem with aerial photos, and that's parallax. If your landscape is flat, you're working from great altitude, you shoot in quick succession, or your lens is very long (or several of these combined), the problem may be small enough to ignore, but usually it isn't. And AFAICT the people who come up with the idea to stitch aerial photos eventually find that they can't produce parallax-free image sets and therefore give the whole idea a miss. If you have a parallax-free image set, you stitch it as a mosaic. This means you optimize for X, Y, Z and r instead of the usual y, p, r. If your shots are all taken from the same height you can leave out the Z. Do a manual trial and see if you can work around the parallax problem and if you get a good result. There's little point thinking about automation before you've established that. Kay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
