Droning the Castle Hill Rock Formation and Building 3D Models with Photoscan & Drone2Map

Posted on Tue 05 July 2016 in Expeditions • Tagged with Structure-from-Motion, drones, New Zealand, Drone2Map, DJI Phantom, Agisoft PhotoscanLeave a comment

This blog entry is part 2 of a short series on my recent research trip to New Zealand. Here I show the data collection and construction of a Structure-from-Motion 3D model of the Castle Hill rock formation. I use both Agisoft Photoscan and ESRI ArcGIS Drone2Map for the data processing. Come back soon for a post on placing seismometers on Tasman Glacier and collecting drone imagery of the terminus, and a post on science of opportunity and building models of glacial lake icebergs.

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Using a drone to build 3D Structure-From-Motion models in New Zealand, Part 1: Evangelizing drones for science

Posted on Mon 06 June 2016 in Expeditions • Tagged with Structure-from-Motion, drones, New Zealand, DJI PhantomLeave a comment

This blog entry is part 1 of a short series on my recent research trip to New Zealand. Here I show a rough test case of building Structure-From-Motion models using imagery from a DJI Phantom. Come back soon a post on using Structure-From-Motion on the Castle Hill rock formation, a post on placing seismometers on Tasman Glacier and collecting drone imagery of the terminus, and a post on science of opportunity and building models of glacial lake icebergs.

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Rebooting the blog

Posted on Wed 01 June 2016 in Blog UpdatesLeave a comment

I'm rebooting this blog. I created it a while ago but never really got it off the ground. Let's try this again.

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