Low Cost Panoramic Views From 112,000 feet

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.'"

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Re:kms = kilo*meter*second

[chawly]

Nitwit - kms is the recognised abbreviation for kilometers. This unit of distance is current all over the world and especially in Europe. While a kilometer means 1000 meters, it is normal to think in kilometers when considering the distance between two towns, say. When travelling between two such towns you can go at the speed you like (or the speed which is legal) and that speed is expressed in kilometers per hour (or kms/hr, if you like abbreviations). Please remove foot from mouth before posting (all twelve inches of it)!