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Palentier: Aerial Mapping Software - Major Update Available

Started this discussion. Last reply by Thomas Finan Feb 4, 2011. 2 Replies

A much improved version of Palentier, the open source aerial mapping software, is now available.www.palentier.comThe new version has an improved interface and a…Continue

Tags: palentier, mapping, cartography

Aerial mapping with Arducopter

Started this discussion. Last reply by Mark Willis Feb 2, 2011. 5 Replies

Hi, a friend and I created an Open Source tool for georeferencing photographs taken from UAVs.  It's called Palentier and is freely available at…Continue

Palentier: Using UAV Open Source Software to Map with Kites

Started this discussion. Last reply by Mark Willis Jan 9, 2011. 40 Replies

Palentier is an Open Source software that was originally created by me and a good friend (M. Stange) for processing aerial images from un-manned aerial vehicles…Continue

JPGW to KMZ, anyone?

Started this discussion. Last reply by Mark Willis Nov 16, 2010. 5 Replies

Does anyone know of an easy/free way to convert a jpg with an associated world file (jpgw) into a KMZ file for reading by Google Earth?  I've got my data in ArcGIS but want a way to automate the…Continue

Tags: earth, google, mapping, Aerial

 

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Mark Willis commented on James masterman's blog post 'Mapping with Ardupilot'
James, very well done!  This is what a great many of us are aiming to do. If you upgrade to the Canon A590, you'll be able to get about a shot every two seconds.
Nov 1, 2011
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Thomas Finan commented on Mark Willis's blog post 'Creating Digital Elevation Models from Low Altitude Photographs'
Mark,   I recognize that you are not responsible for the opensource software that exports the point cloud, but I have tried it in the last week on three different machines, and it crashes at the point after I enter the webpage of the Photosynth…
Aug 27, 2011
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Mark Willis replied to Fouad Mahmud's discussion 'Flight Planning Software for ArduPilot Aerial Mapping'
You might find the attached excel file useful also.   -Mark
Mar 18, 2011
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Tommy replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Making Digital Elevations Models (DEM) on the cheap'
Many thanks for your detail explanation.  I will follow the instructions and buy you a cold beer later:)
Feb 23, 2011
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Mike replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Making Digital Elevations Models (DEM) on the cheap'
Brakar, I had a look at the hypr3D and it looks impressive. Seems to sit somewhere between Photosculpt and Photosynth and produces results that are seemingly far superior to both. Can't wait to try it myself and see what we get, thanks for the…
Feb 23, 2011
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Jaime Lopez replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Making Digital Elevations Models (DEM) on the cheap'
Hi Reto,   I will buy an APM soon to install on EasyStar model to capture aerial photos and then create a mosaic from them. Could you explain me how can I make good DEM this way? (process, tools, etc.) thanks in advance, Jaime
Feb 19, 2011
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Thomas Finan replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Palentier: Aerial Mapping Software - Major Update Available'
I am very interested in Palentier.  Ive been following this discussion for the last few months, and am just beginning to explore the possibilities of aerial photography for archaeology.    
Feb 4, 2011
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Michael Oborne replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Palentier: Aerial Mapping Software - Major Update Available'
Mark,   What information do you need to use your program? it wont do anything like bundler and generate camera postions will it? I have several photos but no gps coords for them, but could manual setup some gcp, but if the photos are not…
Feb 3, 2011
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Mark Willis commented on Mark Willis's blog post 'Creating Digital Elevation Models from Low Altitude Photographs'
Jørn, thanks for all your hard work on this.  I did some early tests of your software and look forward to seeing what this latest version can do. -Mark
Feb 2, 2011
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Mark Willis replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Aerial mapping with Arducopter'
Mauro, I haven't had a chance to focus on adding support for ArduCopter to Palentier yet.  That being said, I do not believe the ArduCopter programmers will need to do anything on their end.  Should just be programming on…
Feb 2, 2011
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Mauro Rodriguez replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Aerial mapping with Arducopter'
Sorry Chris, I wanted to know if the next release will have the data embedded as Mark asked, not the date. Thanks!
Feb 2, 2011
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brakar commented on Mark Willis's blog post 'Creating Digital Elevation Models from Low Altitude Photographs'
Mark, I just have released a tool for AffineTransformation of 3D pointclouds, as a first part of the tools I am working on. As is, it might be a simpler/faster alternative to JAG3D.The full announcement can be found here:…
Feb 1, 2011
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Chris Anderson replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Aerial mapping with Arducopter'
Late Feb/early March
Feb 1, 2011
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Mauro Rodriguez replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Aerial mapping with Arducopter'
Chris, do you know if the next version of the code for the Arducopter will include that data? Thanks!
Feb 1, 2011
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Palentier: Aerial Mapping Software - Major Update Available

A much improved version of Palentier, the open source aerial mapping software, is now available.www.palentier.comThe new version has an improved interface and a slew of bug fixes.Palentier processes aerial photographs collected from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) by scaling, orienting and integrating the images to real world coordinate systems. It does this by analyzing the telemetry data from the UAV and merging it with the aerial photographs. The results…See More
Discussion posted by Mark Willis Jan 10, 2011
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roger replied to Mark Willis's discussion 'Making Digital Elevations Models (DEM) on the cheap'
Mark,   I'm more interested on "near" ground imagery too.   Thanks for the info.
Jan 9, 2011

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I'm an archaeologist that does photogrammetry and aerial photos from kites and blimps. I'm interested in bringing this work to UAVs.

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Creating Digital Elevation Models from Low Altitude Photographs

Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:11am 12 Comments

A free tutorial on creating Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from Photosynth point clouds is now available online.  The tutorial focus on using mostly free and Open Source software to create detailed georeferenced 3D models from low altitude aerial photographs that have been processed…

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Introducing Palentier: An Open Source Aerial Mapping Application

Posted on September 28, 2010 at 11:30am 17 Comments

http://www.palentier.com

Palentier processes aerial photographs collected from a camera aboard a MikroKopter, or similar Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) then scales, orients and projects the images to real world mapping systems. It does this by analyzing the telemetry data from the UAS and merging it with the aerial photographs. The resulting data is then superimposed for viewing in Google…

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Aerial Mapping with multicopter

Posted on June 8, 2010 at 10:00am 20 Comments

Hello all, I've been toying around with the MikroKopter Hexakopter as a tool for aerial mapping and photogrammetry. After a few weeks of learning the ins and outs of the system, I finally had some time on the weekend to test the system for mapping.



In short, we placed Ground Control Points (GCPs) around a man-made ponding area at roughly ten meter intervals (~40 x 30 m in total…

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Drones to help track US border in summer

Posted on May 19, 2010 at 3:09pm 4 Comments

On a visit to El Paso this weekend, I noticed this article on front page of the El Paso Times concerning US border drone use.

One interesting tid bit, "Perez said the Department of Homeland Security and members of Congress have been frustrated with the FAA because it has been slow in approving the department's request for…

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At 9:54am on November 3, 2009, Rory PaulRory Paul said…
Hi Mark

Take a look at the following sites:

www.aerogeonautics.com
www.aerialinsight.com

Both are using data logged during the flight to improve the ability to accurately geo-reference and model the imagery acquired during small uav flights.

Regards

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