Low Cost Panoramic Views From 112,000 feet 43
IgorC writes "Some engineering students at Texas A&M University have just received data gathered from a low cost 6 Mpixels digital camera (a Canon PowerShot S3 IS). Via NASA balloon, the camera flew up some 36 kms for 18 hours while storing more than 1600 images. The group writes: ' We are in our preliminary result discovery phase and patched up some of these frames together to produce several panoramic views from that altitude (the camera was looking down). They are viewable on the GeoCam blog. We intend on porting that information on Google Maps and Google Earth. For those of you who are undergrads and want to do something better, the folks at HASP-LSU will have a call for participants next year in their announcement page.'"
Blog link is 404, working link here (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:kms = kilo*meter*second (Score:4, Informative)
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Great app for stitching together panoramas. (Score:5, Informative)
These folks had some problems (they mentioned that a picture was taken every 23 seconds and in that time clouds moved enough to make stitching a pain) but for general shots, wow, great app. Takes bloody forever (and you will notice a system slow down, even if you drop the process priority to idle), even on a 4400+ system, but it's certainly faster than doing it by hand in photoshop.
Installer is tiny too, it's not bloated like most software apps these days...
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Yeah, and? (Score:5, Informative)
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Next thing you'll start complaining about not being able to edit your posts.
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Liar! (Score:1)
Hey! I looked for that girl for a half-hour before I realized you were LYING! The boss nearly fired me. I had to give him a bj to calm him down. Now I have a nasty taste in my mouth. You jerk.
Realtime images? Competition for Google Earth (Score:3, Informative)
Too bad this won't give Google Earth much competition. Someday in the not so distant future, satellite imagery may become real-time via low cost weather balloons. Now imagine having access to realtime satellite imagery, how much would that be worth? Using this technology, it wouldn't be so hard to get real time (or close to real time) images from the weather balloon.
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do'h I said to much.
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low cost eh? (Score:2, Insightful)
Wow! A low cost solution! So... how much did that balloon cost, and how many man-hours went into that launch?
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They could have taken more pictures... (Score:4, Funny)
enterpise Enterprise (Score:2)
Faked (Score:3, Funny)