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. |