Moderator Comment by Chris Anderson on April 7, 2009 at 8:18pm

Cool! Can you remind use what autopilot you're using?

Comment by Rory Paul on April 7, 2009 at 8:43pm

MicroPilot MP2028.

Comment by Daniel Agar on April 8, 2009 at 4:29am

What did you use to stitch the photos together?

Comment by Rory Paul on April 8, 2009 at 5:10am

@Daniel

I used Autopano. I did some manual rotations on some of the images. I suspect that with a bit of work in photoshop I could have got a better result but this was just quick and dirty.

Moderator Comment by Sgt Ric on April 8, 2009 at 5:22am

Cool., but I thought you were working on the ArduPilot as well(?)

Comment by Rory Paul on April 8, 2009 at 5:58am

Not at the moment. I intend to try out the Attopilot first. The MP2028 is very feature rich autopilot (manual runs to almost 200 pages for just the autopilot and separate manual for ground station software). After more than a year I still do not feel 100% comfortable with my skill set i.e. I can plan a flight, simulate it and fly it and still have some part of the outcome surprise me (I suppose that is what makes it fun).

Comment by Roberto on April 8, 2009 at 12:28pm

I have a question: all photos are taken at the same altitude? I try sometime to do something similar but my first problem was that photos are taken at different altitude (i used an helicopter).

Somebody know a software that work with gps data to stitch (or just zoom and rotate) photos? It will be very helpfull.

Comment by Rory Paul on April 8, 2009 at 2:03pm

There is a slight variation in the altitude no more than a few meters. I currently do not know of any off the shelf software to do it (there are a few groups with priority applications) . The major problem using GPS data is the heading information is relative to the track and does not give an indication of the yaw at the moment the camera is triggered (still looking for a data logger with magnetometer).

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