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Kite aerial photography (KAP) is a form of small format aerial photography (SFAP) using the kite as an unmanned platform.
Low-cost portable systems are capable of providing high-resolution oblique and vertical images that are useful both for documentation and for scientific purposes. Applications include land surveying, agriculture, forestry, geology, archeology, and recording of heritage sites. Many different kinds of equipment can be used for KAP: film or digital cameras, rigid or soft kites, camera rigs with or without vertical and horizontal aiming, shutter release by timing devices intervalometer) or radio-control. The project described here uses a simple point-and-shoot film camera mounted in a rig that can be oriented in the vertical and horizontal planes. Aiming of the camera and shutter release are controlled by radio from the ground. Negatives are scanned and computer-enhanced using a standard graphics package. |
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