Goals and Conditions

Educational project aimed at utilising and expanding existing knowledge and acquiring new skills.
Goals for this project:

• expand knowledge of photography
• acquire knowledge of photogrammetry
• hardware hacking (build a 3D camera)
• hardware programming (port and use CHDK) on the camera
• use acquired knowledge to generate topography data from areal view
• use acquired knowledge for telemetry processing
• figure out what else is needed to make this project successful
• optional: expand knowledge of avionics

Conditions for success:

• acquiring any new and beneficial skill or knowledge
• creating a 3D camera rig from off the shelf components
• acquire areal photographs from build camera rig
• creating software for processing data from build camera rig
• optional: build drone to carry the camera rig
• optional: camera rig and/or flying contraption spontaneously combusts or disappears in a hole of space and time

Achieving any of these conditions, and the project will be considered time well spent. As from now on, anything goes!