Contemplating FOSS4G 2015, Seoul, South Korea | SEPTEMBER 14TH – 19TH, 2015, but don’t speak Korean? That’s ok. You will be treated oh so well even without Korean. But… if you want to show your hosts and hostesses a little care in return, maybe learn a little basic Korean. I highly recommend the sweetandtasty channel on YouTube, starting with the word “Love” or “sarang”. You’ll … Continue reading And I will fly ten thousand miles…
Dirk’s MSF Canada Drone Day is officially the first blog post I have “re-blogged”. Please read: https://smathermather.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/msf-canada-drone-day/ or better yet here: http://dirkgorissen.com/2015/07/14/msf-canada-drone-day/ I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Dirk and Ivan, and the rest is well covered in Dirk’s post. It came together as an excellent day and I think you would be hard pressed to have had a better introduction to drones. The … Continue reading MSF Canada Drone Day follow-up
Originally posted on Machine Doing:
I recently had the honour of attending the MSF Canada AGM in Montreal to join Ivan Gayton and Stephen Mather (from Open DroneMap fame) run a drone day for the MSF logisticians. The aim being to show the realm of the possible with current drone technology as well as touch on future trends and ethical considerations. A second agenda we had was to promote… Continue reading MSF Canada Drone Day
Citing my previous post, let’s move on to more specifics on my thoughts regarding the integration of OpenAerialMap, OpenDroneMap, and MapKnitter as projects. OpenDroneMap ❤ OpenAerialMap. OpenAerialMap will become a platform by which drone users can share their imagery under an open license. So, as the metadata spec for OpenAerialMap and OpenImageryNetwork matures, and as soon as a publicly available place for drone users to … Continue reading OpenAerialMap, OpenImageryNetwork, MapKnitter, OpenTerrain, and OpenDroneMap (cont. 1)
This tweet: is the beginning of some fruitful discussion, I suspect. There are some really awesome projects gaining momentum. I’ll give an overview of them as best I am able. Let’s start with the one nearest and dearest to my heart (if you’ve been reading my blog, you can skip this part): OpenDroneMap. OpenDroneMap is an open source toolkit for processing drone, balloon, kite imagery … Continue reading OpenAerialMap, OpenImageryNetwork, MapKnitter, OpenTerrain, and OpenDroneMap
I got a request today to extract the compass bearing from a set of photos, and add a rotated north arrow to those images in visual form so end users can see if the picture was while the camera was pointed north, or east, or NNW, etc.. Below is a photo pointing mostly East. With BASH and a little Imagemagick, this was a pretty easy … Continue reading BASH script for adding directional / compass arrows to image
Edit: forgot the camera array: CIR image from balloon: Continue reading Kite flight (too windy for balloons, ahem “aerostats”)
NCGIS was an excellent conference, and this year was my first attending / presenting. Bravo to the organizers, who themed it Mobile and Global, but confessed that Mobile, Global, Open would have been more apropos. To catch screen captures and audio for the presentations, see this temporary location: http://geodata.lib.ncsu.edu/pub/2015NCGIS_Pres/ which is organized by room numbers, so check out the schedule: http://ncgisconference.com/#schedule . My favorite new … Continue reading North Carolina GIS Conference
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