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Shannon "Really interesting! Eustatic (Scott Eustis) and I talked about trying to figure this out years ago to do mapping of grass beds off Florida. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "So cool!!!! " | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "I've recently used just a flag-shaped piece of foam core and a swivel to stabilize my Mobius (infragram p+s) and it worked pretty well, although I ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "Very True. In fact I'd have no other choice since my Printrbot Simple can only print about 4x4x4 anyway. Unfortunately, I won't be printing much ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "I flew the mobius on a redstone rig, but the rig was overkill--- weighing twice what the camera did. I bet just scaling it down to closer to the m..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Hmm, trying again now: https://mapknitter.org/map/view/pottskaptest2/ It worked this time! Not sure what your last error was but it seems converti..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "On anemometers-- learn the Beaufort scale and watch the tops of trees-- since wind speed on the ground is less important than high up, Beaufort is ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "I haven't seen anyone doing orthorectification with Open CV. MicMac is the only toolchain I know of it include 3D construction and orthorectificat..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "Also a brief search into OpenCV and 3D Aerial Photography yielded some promising results- This post on Stack Exchange almost seems like it came fro..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "That's good to know that structure from motion works with wide angle photos. It sounds like you have to correct the distortion first. It doesn't se..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "Now I can't wait to get back in the air because I really want to compare the Bimp+Gimp combo to DigiKam. I have a slight suspicion that DigiKam po..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Philgib ""The lens is very wide, so stitching maps from multiple low altitude photos produces poor results" Sorry for not being clear enough. Gimp + Bimp ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "That is an excellent Mobius photo. The Mobius is so lightweight that there is no reason not to include one on every flight. The lens is very wide, ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Philgib "Sorry two more things for you : - make sure you use pulleys and proper pulleys string on your picavet. Brooxes.com is the place. My picavet / pulle..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Philgib "That is the "black island" from Tintin album cover. My multicopter is hand made with super cheap material, it is therefore vibrating a lot. From a ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Philgib "Links to waterproof case (the only case I am aware of ) Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy8ONQOhha8 Purchase : https://joovuu.com/gb/home/1..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "Thank you for the interesting recommendations. I actually just got my Mobius today and will be printing out various components for the rig. Can y..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Philgib "Hi, Great project. I do multi rotors, rc planes, blimp and kite pics. Your pictures will be 100 times better with a Mobius, plus a waterproof ca..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "RE:-High Winds- Has anyone posted a note about making a DIY wind speed meter? It would've been handy to get a rough idea of how close I was to t..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "RE: Kite Reels and Line- It was definitely 50 Ibs line but now that I know better I made sure to order a Yo Yo Reel with 150 Ibs Dacron this time..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ajawitz "RE: Mapknitter- I converted the images to JPGs and uploaded them again. The export status dialog then reads (Status: Warping 1 of 6, 2 of 6 etc...." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Indeed there's something about the images themselves. I hate to ask, but could you try to convert them to jpg and re-upload them? I'm very sorry bu..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "I can't tell if there's something it's choking on in your images (maybe 'cause they were screenshots from VLC?) or it's having trouble downloading ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Hmm, i'm not sure what's going on with that mapknitter export. Looking into it... thanks! " | Read more » over 10 years ago