Aerial Photography
question:aerial-photography

This is an open source community effort to develop **simple, low-cost aerial photography** methods for a range of conditions. All accessible hardware and software efforts are welcome here! There are several sub-categories: * [Balloon mapping](/wiki/balloon-mapping) * [Kite mapping](/wiki/kite-mapping) * [Pole Mapping](/wiki/pole-mapping) Also: * [Kite making](/wiki/kite-making) - make your own! * [Balloon Mapping Materials](/wiki/balloon-mapping-materials) - where to get them! * [Camera selection](/wiki/camera-selection) * [Camera triggering](/wiki/camera-trigger) - snap a picture every second * [Photo rigs](/wiki/photo-rig) - connect your camera to your balloon/kite/etc! * [MapKnitter](/wiki/mapknitter) - Stitching images into maps! * [Mapping curriculum](/wiki/mapping-curriculum) - a range of useful resources **You can join in by:** * Reading about goals and [asking great questions](#Questions) * Trying (and adding to) our [community-made how-to guides](#Activities) * Building on others’ work; **adapt, hack and remix** the kits to refine and expand them **** ## Activities [activities:aerial-photography] **** ## Starter Kits Public Lab’s Kits initiative offers starter kits for kite and balloon photography. The point of the kits is to provide a shared reference design for building experimental setups onto. You can also use our guides as a resource for building or purchasing materials of your own. **[Public Lab Store's Aerial Photography and Mapping Kits](http://store.publiclab.org/collections/mapping-kits)** **** ## Questions Ask a question about aerial photography [notes:question:aerial-photography] **** ### Design philosophy These tools are being developed to provide a low cost, easy to use, and safe methods for making maps and aerial images. Over the last few years, we’ve built a global community of mappers who are engaged in discussion around the development and use of this tool and others. Normally aerial maps are made from satellites and airplanes. The balloon and kite ground-based approach introduces an on-demand capability where events or environmental conditions are mapped at a specific moment in time. Our community is particularly interested in applying this to civic and environmental issues. Maps are often used by those in power to exert influence over territory, or control territorial narratives. "Grassroots mapping" attempts to invert this dynamic by using maps as a mode of communication and as evidence for an alternative, community-owned definition of a territory. To date, our tools have been used to contest official maps or rhetoric by enabling communities to map sites that are not included in official maps. In Lima Peru, members of an informal settlement developed maps of their community as evidence of their habitation, while on the Gulf Coast of the US, locally produced maps of oil are being used to document damage that is underreported by the state. ...


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ClimateArt " @ClimateArt has marked @Username as a co-author. " | Read more » almost 2 years ago
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dusjagr "We are getting amazingly good results using the miSphere 360 camera. due to the gyroscope and other sensor, post-processing using their standard so..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
daisywatson "Thanks Warren :) " | Read more » about 6 years ago
warren "There are some options here! #fisheye Hope that helps! " | Read more » about 6 years ago
daisywatson "I love GoPro, and I am following up to the question as I do want to know for some alternatives to it for aerial mapping. I have already been readin..." | Read more » about 6 years ago
warren "Just noting that @csik has had trouble with some of these types of cameras recently: I chocked it up to not being familiar with the cameras but fo..." | Read more » about 6 years ago
warren "There are a number of kite designs posted at https://publiclab.org/wiki/kite-making -- some good leads there! " | Read more » over 6 years ago
haneetsinghp "I Liked recently launched Eken H6S 4K Action camera, on YTECHB " | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Scott from GRN ( @eustatic ) has also been uploading images to GRN's Flickr account: Beaumont, 95 images, geocoded: https://www.flickr.com/photos/..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
zengirl2 "Via @sarasage -- List of Texas Landfills Data Sets from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality " | Read more » over 6 years ago
zengirl2 "Interesting that Tomnod is showing a little over 1,000 volunteers, where Zooniverse has over 3,000. I had never heard of Tomnod, so thanks for shar..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Via @nedhorning - Here are a couple links. I haven't checked these out but they are potentially useful. https://tnris.org/data-download/#!/statew..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
zengirl2 "Hey, the info from GRN here--that is what Scott meant by 6 ft.--not distance from coastline. :) " | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Via @sarasage -- What Lies in Irma's Path: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-lies-in-irmas-path/ Perhaps we need a matching question for..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Via Scott Eustis -- @eustatic - of Gulf Restoration Network; places to cross reference to look for industrial sites: Justin, i did see it, but did..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Also note places to cross reference to look for industrial sites, also via Scott Eustis - @eustatic - of Gulf Restoration Network: Justin, i did s..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Scott Eustis -- @eustatic -- of Gulf Restoration Network shared this, via NOAA: https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/harvey/index.html " | Read more » over 6 years ago
zengirl2 "HaveCameraWillTravel lists some of the software already mentioned as well as Lightroom and others. I couldn't find the post on Public Lab with the ..." | Read more » over 6 years ago