Today’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide significant insights into land use, both now and in the past. From agriculture, forestry, construction, mining and land surveying to disaster/emergency response and archeology, they all depend on advanced imaging capabilities to deliver more detailed maps to accurately inform operations or understand the purpose of ancient buildings.
A key data source for these systems is aerial photographs from either satellite or more recently high-performance drone-based earth observations. Of course, given the land area normally covered by a GIS map, to create a realistic reconstruction of an area often requires a series of aerial photographs to be captured and processed in real-time.
