11-18, 09:00–12:00 (Pacific/Auckland), WF603
The barrier to entry for building and flying small (sub 250g) drones for mapping has flown low enough to step over. Join this workshop to assemble a small mapping drone equipped with flight planning software and a good camera for mapping.
The barrier to entry for building and flying small (sub 250g) drones for mapping has flown low enough to step over. Join this workshop to assemble a small mapping drone equipped with flight planning software and a good camera for mapping.
Learn about existing, e.g. Drone Tasking Manager -- DroneTM, and forthcoming drone mapping tools, e.g. the Community Mapping Drone. We are now mapping entire cities at 5cm resolution with small drones, allowing local pilots to map as well, and often better, than commercial satellite providers.
Join us outside the workshop, regulations, weather, and logistics willing, for some small demonstration mapping flights.
10 years after that fateful build session at FOSS4G in Seoul, let's do it again! This time, the drones are much easier to build, much smaller and lighter, and the mapping results, that much more satisfying. It should be a fun workshop at the intersections of sophisticated / easy-to-use photogrammetry, community coordinated mapping, 3D modeling, easy hardware builds
Stephen has been working in the geospatial world since 1998, much of that with free and open source software in the public and non-profit sectors. He has been interested in the application of computer vision to geospatial analyses since 2004, and founded the OpenDroneMap project (http://opendronemap.org) in 2014, a project to bring together and extend a suite of open source computer vision software for use with UAS (drone) and street level images. The scalability and distributability of OpenDroneMap as free and open source software has lead to its adoption across sectors, with notable users in conservation, development, and disaster response.
Stephen serves as executive director of OpenDroneMap.org and is also coauthor of the PostGIS Cookbook and blogs all his geospatial and ecological whims at https://smathermather.com.
Ivan works at the intersection of humanitarianism, technology, Free Software, and equitable development. He has worked as a treeplanter in Canada, a logistician, Head of Mission, technologist, and migrant rights advisor with Médecins sans Frontières, and a mobile money implementation lead for Sendwave, a Y Combinator startup. He currently works with the ridiculously-named but innovative and useful Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), where he focuses on the democratization of mapping tools, in particular for the community-led creation and use of aerial imagery.