[Geowanking] Mapping Burning Man

[Tom Longson (nym)]

Looks like I need to get over my fear of hights, within two months at that.

nym

On 6/21/06, Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> I'd love to help ortho any image as well and could give GRASS a try to do
> it the open way :)
> Tyler
>
> On 21-Jun-06, at 10:09 AM, Marc Pfister wrote:
>
> I do a lot of orthophoto production and could rectify the imagery if
> someone could get some, as well as GPS some ground control. Since the Playa
> is so flat the USGS DEMs should work well enough.
>
>
>
> We use Geomatica here. I think the open-source GRASS GIS can orthorectify
> too, but I've never tried it.
>
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> *On Behalf Of *FANTOM PLANET
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:08 AM
> *To:* geowanking at lists.burri.to
> *Subject:* Re: [Geowanking] Mapping Burning Man
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>
> When at NASA I had the same issues.  I used an expensive tool called
> Socket Set to get a crappy ortho of some thermal imagery.
>
> May I suggest a light read about photogrammetery?
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0072924543/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/002-2767370-2520843?%5Fencoding=UTF8
>
> GeoMullah
>
> On 6/21/06, *Tom Longson (nym)* <tomlong at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My only issue with real planes, is that all the shots I've seen look like
> this: http://www.seansavage.com/photos/burningman/images/blackrockcity-aerial2.jpg
>
>
> I could be wrong, but I think orthographic techniques require a bit closer
> to perpendicular than that. Does anyone know anything about mounting
> cameras on the bottom of a plane?
>
>
> nym
>
>
>
> On 6/21/06, *Dav Yaginuma* < dav.yaginuma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It might be simpler, and more fun, to just hitch a ride with people at
> the BRC airport each day. I have a friend who used to fly his small
> plane out to BM each year. He would take a few friends for a ride
> every other day or so and he would often take hitchikers (usually
> skydivers) up when he did a run.
>
> http://www.danger-island.com/~dav/photos/burningman/2001/dcp03018.html
> <http://www.danger-island.com/%7Edav/photos/burningman/2001/dcp03018.html>
>
> On 6/21/06, Mikel Maron < mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Scott Haefner is another SFBay local KAP-er [http://scotthaefner.com/kap/
> ], who's done some KAP mapping [http://scotthaefner.com/kap/gallery/map/?region=bayarea
> ]
> >
> > Wind speed varies quite a bit on the playa, day to day and hour to hour.
> The rig itself wouldn't need any GPS itself, since it would be nearly
> impossible to duplicate the altitude, location, and yaw/pitch/roll of the
> shot. The images could be manually georeferenced post event by triangulating
> known locations within the images.
> >
> > So, what height would be required to photograph the extent of the  playa
> from a point nearly directly above the Man?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Nikolaj Nyholm < nikolaj at oreilly.com>
> > To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:50:10 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Mapping Burning Man
> >
> > i know this low-fi gimmick won't fully serve the purpose, but the
> premiere issue of make magazine had a how-to (http://www.makezine.com/01/KAP/)
> on aerial kite photography.
> >
> > the article author maintains a website (
> http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/) and even has some burning man
> photographs ( http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/gallery/gal187.html) in his
> gallery.
> >
> > /n
> >
> > Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:50:03PM -0700, Kevin Elliott wrote:
> > >> Weather balloons and kites are cheaper :)
> > >
> > > Large model airplane flying GPS-guided hairpins, and a good camera;
> > > mosaic the result.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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