Questions tagged [aerial-photography]

Photographs of the ground from above. Including from airplanes, helipcopters, balloons, kites, multicopter drones.

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What is the x and y camera gimbal angle for a drone?

I was looking at this stack exchange question. How do I calculate the ground footprint of an aerial camera? I'm trying to calculate the area a photo footprint captures depending on the elevation of a drone. This answer explains it very well, but I'm…
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Recreate aerial photograph: find correct position

My father has an old aerial photograph of the neighbourhood where he lives (and where I grew up), while it was still under construction, taken around 1975. It's not digital of course, but I photographed it (higher resolution in this Dropbox…
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Determine the size of an object from an aeriel photo

Given: I shoot from 1,000 feet ASL I used Canon 1000D with 500mm telephoto lens Question: How can I measure or find the size of an object that i shoot using the following data? Can you show me the formula?
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How to place a light-weight point and shoot camera on a balloon

How do I place a light-weight point and shoot camera on a balloon filled with helium gas?
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