Archive for the ‘ UAV ’ Category
Mike Richter is a Santa Barbara, California-based designer and kit manufacturer of innovative, high performance model sailplanes. I’m at the stage where I’m striving to make things simpler, rather than more complicated, and it looks like Mike’s design philosophy is to take the simplest possible approach to building and flying. When I saw Mike’s [ READ MORE ]
One of the applications for photographic images acquired during Low Altitude Area Survey (LAAS) is Google Earth (GE). The tool used to configure the GE platform is known as Keyhole Markup Language (KML), and has numerous elements used to achieve different types of functionality. The specific element used to overlay an image onto the [ READ MORE ]
It’s refreshing to see tax dollars doing interesting and useful work. Natural Resources Canada is responsible for managing the National Air Photo Library and has an article called Air Photos 101 and explains some of the basic concepts clearly and concisely. This is not directly related to Low Altitude Aerial Survey, but contains some useful [ READ MORE ]
While the task of creating a suitable platform for aerial survey may seem like a daunting one, breaking the project into stages and getting each part to function properly before moving on to the next is perhaps the best way to tackle this. To have a useful platform to create a series of images over a [ READ MORE ]
I’m pleased to introduce a new topic to butzi.ca/tech; Low Altitude Aerial Surveys. This category will cover items and issues related to a project to capture aerial images from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), precisely geocode them, and montage them on a platform such as Google Earth (GE). In my work to deliver petroleum well data [ READ MORE ]