This is a drone mapping tool to help landscape & urban designers to make visual memories from aerial surveys. The tool can read photo dumps from drones and from mobile phone cameras and visualize the images onto a Digital Terrain Model in 3D space. It utilizes the opensource exif tool library at the backend to make this possible. The front end is a toolbar in Rhino 3D which facilitates user interaction.
ETHZ MAS Degree Project
- Department: Landscape Visualization and Modeling Laboratory (LVML) at the Department of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich
- Degree: Postgraduate MAS Degree
- Year: 2014
Abstract
As a part of my final master thesis project at ETH Zurich, i worked on a plugin in Rhino 3D to visualize imagery acquired by devices with geo-location capacities. It's called PICTURIZE. The tool can READ raw files: camlogs and img-sets from drones, and images from digital cameras & mobile phones to place them in a digital terrain model.
Image Acquisition
The study uses photographic data from two devices:
- Nexus 5 mobile phone (Google) | Terrestrial Imagery
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- AscTec Falcon 8 Octocopter Drone (Ascending Technologies) | Aerial Imagery
Digital Terrain Meshes
The digital terrain meshes are acquired from here:
Published Links on the project
- https://blogs.ethz.ch/girotmasla1314/2014/07/29/picturize/
- https://cargocollective.com/diktum/Landscapes
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