![]() ![]() Note: I had to fly all the way out there because surrounding the statue is a huge wasteland used to dump all sorts of concrete and construction debris. Once I felt that I had enough photos from one altitude I lowered the drone and took another series of photos. While the drone was circling I took pictures every couple of seconds. To do this I set the top of the statues head as the centre point then moved back about 25 meters to set the radius and hit go. Once in position I switched to intelligent flight mode and used the "Point of interest" flight mode to automatically circle the statue while taking pictures of it. I flew out there using the GPS flight mode and positioned the drone directly over the head of the statue. ![]() I live in Lima, Peru in a place called Chorillos) Note the green horse pasture in the background. Here is one of the original images of the Jesus statue. I used a Phantom 3 Pro and took around 110 photos from three different elevations while the drone was automatically flying in a circle around the statue. ![]() The practice has been around for over a century, but has become especially popular over the course of the past decade with the proliferation of digital cameras and free or relatively inexpensive, but accurate, processing software. Photogrammetry uses a series of photo images to computationally map a 3D model or space. The technology used to do this is called Photogrammetry. I spent some time today using a DJI Phantom 3 Pro drone to make a 3D printed model of a statue of Jesus that's by my house. ![]()
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