fweed@ufweed.UUCP (Frank P. Weed II) (08/10/90)
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has managed to computerize
any aspects of aerial photography, and/or any other newsgroups that may be
applicable to this topic. Specific interests at the moment are:
1) Machine type and software used to store the photo index and whether
or not it can import any data gleaned from the government (ie: USGS data)
2) Enlarger and/or contact printer automation (in part or in full). I'd
presume that the same stepper motors used for motion control would be useful
for setting the enlarger (anybody want to tell me where to look for them?)
3) Digitizing info - low end estimates are 5G @ 50 dpi b&w at the moment
with color to be implemented soon. Does anybody do stereo digital viewing
at the moment?
4) Related to digitizing would be the correlating of a photo to known
measurements (ie: quads) in order to electronically eliminate distortion due
to plane/camera tilt, perspective effects, etc.
5) Also related to digitizing would be the conversion of stereo images to
a 3d database
EMail preferred (send to fweed@nyx.cs.du.edu if it bounces)
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