Next generation cave mapping
Posted: Sep 10, 2010 9:27 am
The Official Caving Forum of the National Speleological Society
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lleblanc wrote:http://But can you crawl with it?
James Rice on SoCal Grotto Yahoo Group wrote:I think cave mapping is about to change radically. Anyone who has surveyed a cave, has wished there were an easier way to do it. Let's imagine a hand-held devise, like a video camera, that would let you map a cave, just as easily as shooting a video. That technology exists. Now if only the price were affordable. It is.
This video is using a laptop computer, and the equivalent of a *$200* Kinect game control camera. Wow.
http://www.youtube.com/user/RGBDvision# ... Rn34pmD5ww
Here's a fly through of (I think) the map made in the video above.
http://www.youtube.com/user/RGBDvision# ... u5Ywwb4RaU
Here they are mapping a single room. Watch the point cloud develop.
http://www.youtube.com/user/RGBDvision# ... 4wXflsoDrY