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Aerial Photography
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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cfastie "Whatever program you use to geotag your photos, make sure your photos were taken with a camera which had the correct time and timezone set. Most pr..." | Read more » about 6 years ago
cfastie "ExifTool by Phil Harvey is the industry standard command line tool to extract or modify the information in the EXIF header of image files: ExifToo..." | Read more » about 6 years ago
liz "Lovely video! I added some formatting on this note. " | Read more » about 6 years ago
mathew "Real cool Chris! Glad to see these advancing. I love the new adjustable-mount position tray. " | Read more » about 6 years ago
cfastie "Thanks Pat. And thanks for your comment and support 3.5 years ago when I posted the first Redstone note. Some things never change. " | Read more » about 6 years ago
patcoyle "Good work, Chris. Thanks for all you've done to advance use of these techniques. " | Read more » about 6 years ago
warren "Super -- added this to the Kickstarter FAQ as well :-) " | Read more » about 6 years ago
liz "wow awesome Chris! I tagged this as an activity for photo-rig so it will get even more visibility! " | Read more » about 6 years ago
warren " https://www.instagram.com/p/BV-hr1AgCO8/ " | Read more » about 6 years ago
mikekaliven87 "Try to do that again or open Help " | Read more » about 6 years ago
kcurrier "When I couldn't find any free, high-resolution aerial imagery of my coral reef study site, @glennon introduced me to BAP and KAP. Since then I've u..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
warren "Awesome pictures! Kelly Taylor from @partsandcrafts sent these in, too! https://www.flickr.com/photos/wmshc_kiwitayro/albums/72157629849309859 " | Read more » over 6 years ago
cfastie " Above: @mustafa10 demonstrating a balloon with Redstone Rig and pendulum suspension. I think this happened in Berlin. I don't know who to credit f..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
cfastie "There are two balloon-kit-box photos at this note: https://publiclab.org/notes/clauds/09-03-2015/a-public-lab-chapter-in-bourj-al-shamali. " | Read more » over 6 years ago
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cfastie " Above: Bristol, VT landfill balloon mapping workshop, October, 2016. Photo: Sara Wylie Above: Bristol, VT landfill balloon mapping workshop, Oct..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
cfastie " Above: Balloon mapping agricultural study plots (the first iFarm, May 2012). Photo, Chris Fastie. Above: Balloon mapping agricultural study plot..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
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liz "There are a LOT of amazing Gowanus photos of canoes in all sorts of water conditions, from frozen to milky white with the carcasses of sewage-gorgi..." | Read more » over 6 years ago
liz "@genawirth and The Dredge Collaborative, more here: https://publiclab.org/profile/gwirth " | Read more » over 6 years ago
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warren "Oops, sorry! " | Read more » over 6 years ago
xose "I think the very first is @bronwen's ;) " | Read more » over 6 years ago
liz "Ecuador, November 2015, with @MateoNeira @sebasvanegasb @NataCabrera @JuanSardi China, January 2016 with @shanlter and the GreenovationHub c..." | Read more » over 6 years ago