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R/C plane with camera captures real-time images for Google Earth

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, January 6, 2007
17 years ago2,570 views

This is a cool experiment – but they use it in real life already.
A man with remote control plane with video camera and GPS can produce picture for Google Earth!
Google Video clip of 2:59 mins included too ;-)
Link:
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/01/watch_remote_control.html

The Description section of the company's web site http://pict-earth.com/indexuk.html (Flash based) describes the technology.

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