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Stitching Aerial Photos
My aim is to photograph a couple of acres of a farm and stitch all the photos together to make one large panoramic. The tutorial here goes a long way in getting started http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-chdk-camera-control-tutorial/ . I've seen a number of software packages online that will apparently do the job, some are free while some cost many thousands of dollars.
The first software package I'll try is the Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) freely available here;
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/
The appealing aspect of this software is it's integration with PhotoSynth and ability to publish to the web.
Here's a quick sample made with photos from an iPhone.