Stitching together aerial photos

I take aerial pictures using my Rc controlled model airplanes.

Instead of combining them together manually, I’m looking into how to automate the process. Currently, the following toolchain seems to be worth trying out:

stitching

• position the images using autopano-sift
• Make a rough stitch using enblend
• Compose the final pano using Hugin based on the fantastic Panorama Tools

So, I have new stuff to try out. Next step will be to get away from the 90-degrees-vertical angle of view and try to stitch a matric of 30 degrees camera inclination images. Not sure how to achieve that however in a flat image file.

Science fiction turns into reality

contact

If you like the movie Contact with Jodie Foster, you should definately take a look at what the people at CERN in Switserland are cooking up.

In the movie, pretty girl Jodie Foster captures an intraterrestial transmission that includes instructions to build some kind of inter-planetary transportation system. If you see the device in operation, it reminds me of the work at CERN. They are building Hadron, the world’s largest particle accelerator (27km). Soon the contraption will be finished and we’ll be able to recreate the conditions that existed microseconds after the Big Bang. Some people are starting to become afraid, just like pictured in the movie.

picture of the Hadron collider

Anyway, pretty impressive stuff.