Joojoo
Heliman
Location: Gainesville, FL
| Thanks a bunch Julian, I just received your email!
As he mentioned, I'm working on my final project for a class called Airborne Instrumentation and Sensor Phenomenology. Although a touch ambitious, the project looks at the design, control, and simulation issues involved with using a fleet of unmanned air vehicles for simultaneous, distributed remote sensing.
As of 11:32AM this morning, my MATLAB simulation code is working well. I'm using Julians gorgeous stooking image to simulate a vehicle flying over a landscape and taking pictures. I have a simple time-dependent image transformation, where the saturation of each shot taken is a function of how long the aircraft has been flying. This is a rough attempt at simulating the typical ground variations that would occur over the course of a mapping flight (light, shadows, objects, etc.).
What I would like to do is apply this simulation to a number of different pictures (ground truth images). Since the vehicle has a specified turn radius, the mapping lines are usually not done in sequence, but rather skipped in order to minimize turn around time. In the final product (for both real and simulated mapping), adjacent lines are often quite different.
My X-Cell 30 camera ship has flown, but I have yet to take any stunning shots. So now I seek the expertise of Julian and anyone else that might be able to help. If you have any images with interesting features and are as vertical as possible, I'd love to run the code on them!
Thanks!
Mujahid |
