Accessible, Aerial 3D Mapping

// Fletcher Bach - 2014 

Technical Landscape

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Kinect

Project Tango

RGB+D

Interaction

iPad + iPhone?

Manual Flight?

Data Collection Tech

  • Infrared
  • Ultrasonic
  • LIDAR

Rendering

  • Assemble depth data as point cloud
  • In post-production setting, user would be able to move camera angle
  • OF/C++/Cinder, Processing, something else?

Applications

  • Art
  • Robotics (automated flight path etc.)
  • Science, Research, Landscape Change
  • Disaster area mapping
  • Architecture
  • Urban Planning
  • Archeology 

Should it be more?

  • How "smart" should it be? Should the system just collect the data points and then the rest happen on the ground? 
  • Should the CV be more thorough? e.g. blob tracking
  • i.e. should the system be at all connected to the UAV?

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