3D From Aerial Photos For the Common Man

An anonymous reader writes "So you have a RC model aircraft snapping digital photos from the air, but how to organize them all? This cheap cloud service from a European research giant will upload your photos and automatically convert them into 3D models you can navigate like a video game. And if you don't have a model aircraft, they'll got those on-the-cheap too. Let the overhead droning begin!"

3D From Aerial Photos For the Common Man

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Kite Aerial Photography in Google Earth

You may recall that our friend Frank Taylor of Google Earth Blog has been sailing around the world. Recently he made headlines because his kite aerial photography of Manihi atoll in French Polynesia, taken last May, has been added to Google Earth. CNet, Gizmodo. Not, apparently, the first time this has happened: he’s taking such pictures along the way. I wonder if this could happen more often. Lord knows there are plenty of places that don’t have high resolution imagery in Google Earth (my own town, for example).