From blimp to page

An afternoon with the newest tool in the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project arsenal, PKAP Airship One, produced a series of spectacular aerial photographs (the adventure of the airship was documented by Dallas Deforest here).

I did some quick, post-processing of the low-altitude aerial photographs, which I document below.  My main interest was transforming the aerial photographs into quick plan views.  I first georeferenced the image (and orthorectified them to compensate for any distortion) using a series of points acquired by GPS. 

I then sketched in the most visible features in the photograph in ArcGIS.  The final image is a drawing, base on the photo, prepared for ground-truthing this afternoon in the field.

 

Comments

[Susan Caraher]

That's so cool!!