GIS Manual: Georeferencing Site Photos. Extending the GeoWeb Place-Based design professionals are big consumers and producers of site photos. Photo sharing sites that allow users to share and discover geotagged photos -- like flickr and panoramio -- are a great source of information for site studies. We should all learn how to contribute our spatial intelligence to this great collaborative resource. This tutorial provides a step-by-step demonstration of the essential principles and tools required to create collections of georeferenced photographs that can browsed and discovered through google earth.
Workflow: Tools, Measurements and Semantic Exchanges Your Camera: records digital photographs and embeds timestamps using a standard for encoding metadata into images (EXIF). This workflow provides a way for people to organize and share information. Resources The Cruise On September 20, 2008, the Harvard Graduate School of Design Landscape Architectutre Department had their welcome back cruise of the Boston Harbor. Camera Settings. Digital aerial images from kites or balloons. How do I get the camera airborne? Now that you have your camera ready, you need a way to get it up in the air.
There are 4 options I’m going to chat about: hot air balloons, hydrogen balloons, helium balloons and kites. Hot Air Balloons: There are two types of hot air balloons: solar heated and combustion heated. The solar balloons rely on the solar radiation from the sun to heat the air inside the balloon. Believe it or not, they actually work; in fact they can be big enough to lift people ( You need a pretty calm day and bright sun but if you have these conditions it’s a pretty neat trick to get a camera in the air without any additional fuel source. Hydrogen balloons: (don’t even go down this road).
Helium Balloons: Now this is the way to go. Kites: These work great when you have steady wind. Grassroots Mapping. Balloon Mapping Cementerio central, Bogotá : un album sur Flickr. BAP_Presentation. PLOTS Map Knitter. Potential Uses. Archaeology Photography from a kite is ideally suited to recording archaeological sites from above. Vertical or oblique images can be used for site recording and monitoring. It can produce unique viewpoints for publication or promotional images. Using digital cameras allows the collection of many images per session. These can be stitched into larger images and if required, rectified. This makes it a suitable method to rapidly map archaeological sites.
Pole aerial photography is ideally suited to recording smaller areas of detail. Land management Kite aerial photography is a useful tool for land management / environmental monitoring such as: vegetation monitoring, monitoring river and coastal erosion, footpath management. Marketing Kite aerial photography and pole aerial photography are the ideal tools to produce unique and memorable images for a variety of marketing uses. Condition Surveys (Building Safety & Repair) Kite Aerial Photography. Kite Aerial Photo. Photography from a kite is a cost effective, low carbon, method of producing unique, unusual, and useful images of the ground from above.
Kite aerial photography has numerous potential uses including recording archaeological sites from above. Vertical or oblique images can be produced for site recording and monitoring. Applications can include recording earthworks and standing structures, providing elevated views without the need for scaffolding or cherry pickers. It can produce unique viewpoints for publication or for promotional use. Portfolio: Using digital cameras allows the collection of many images per session.
Photography from a kite is a cost effective, low carbon, method of producing unique, unusual, and useful images of the ground from above. Click here for Important Information about Kite and Pole Aerial Photography Click here for Potential Uses.