3D 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 do you 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 got those on-the-cheap too. Let the overhead droning begin!"
The cheap version:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_aerial_photography
http://scotthaefner.com/kap/
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/kaptoc.html
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