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- From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore)
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- Subject: Re: KH-11 pictures -
- Message-ID: <willmore.726887945@tremplo.gis.iastate.edu>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 01:19:05 GMT
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- wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright) writes:
- >willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes:
- >>There are a few differences. The wavelength of the radio waves in
- >>question are much longer than the light waves. Therefore, the precision
- >>with which the image receivers must be places is more stringent for the
- >>optical methods. It's just not too easy. I'm not saying that it
- >>can't or isn't being done. It's just difficult to accomplish.
-
- >A few years ago on a television program (NOVA, I think) I saw something
- >like this. Some people at the Jet Propulion Lab took a couple of digitized
- >satellite pictures, crunched them in a computer for a while, and ended up
- >with a 3D model of the subject area (San Francisco, I think) in their
- >computer.
-
- >They could "fly" around the city (between building, etc) and view
- >objects from different perspectives. I don't think the were increasing
- >the resolution, but they were extracting the 3rd dimension information
- >from 2D images.
-
- I work at a GIS (geographic information systems) laboratory where we
- work with data like this. There is a comercial package called pv wave
- which does this. One of their demos takes several satellite pictures
- from different angles and combines them to get a topography for the
- area. Given that, they map a set of luma (greyscales) values to the
- topo yielding a 3D model of the city. It's impressive to see a two year
- old workstation rotate a 3D model of LA in real time. :)
-
- I'm afraid that we've wondered afar, sorry.
-
- --David Willmore
- willmore@iastate.edu
-