Comment Here's some other examples using kites: (Score 4, Informative) 205
William Freeman has a good page on his MIT AI lab homepage about doing the same thing except using kites to take pictures. (Btw, check out William T Freemans MIT e-mail address...)
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/wtf/kite.html
And another link to a good site is Charles Benton's site.
http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/
Its interesting to note that there are lots of methos for creating unstructured panoramas. Where you have a set of images and the algorithm does its best to determine how to stick the images together to form a panorama. You could imagine a similar algorithm using these images to auotmatically create aerial maps... might make a good paper.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/wtf/kite.html
And another link to a good site is Charles Benton's site.
http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/
Its interesting to note that there are lots of methos for creating unstructured panoramas. Where you have a set of images and the algorithm does its best to determine how to stick the images together to form a panorama. You could imagine a similar algorithm using these images to auotmatically create aerial maps... might make a good paper.
