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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
