New Articles

Here are two recent articles that I was working on over the summer, both in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Enjoy!

Dietrich, J. T. (2016) Bathymetric Structure from Motion: Extracting shallow stream bathymetry from multi-view stereo photogrammetry. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.4060.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.4060/abstract

Carbonneau, P. E., and Dietrich, J. T. (2016) Cost-effective non-metric photogrammetry from consumer-grade sUAS: implications for direct georeferencing of structure from motion photogrammetry. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.4012.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/esp.4012/abstract

New Off Nadir Resolution Calculator

A quick update, I uploaded a new Python off-nadir resolution calculator to my GitHub:

https://github.com/geojames/py_offNadir_Res

It only works for low-oblique images (theoretically it would also work for nadir images if you set the pitch of the camera to zero). It calculates the pixel resolutions for the near field (closest to the camera), mid field (at the principal point), and the far field (furthest for the camera). It will also tell you the area that each image covers.

If your interested in how it works head over to the GitHub repository.

Amethyst Brook Dam Removal

Some footage from last week's dam removal on a stream that we (Dartmouth) have been doing extensive monitoring on in West-central Massachusetts (near Amherst).

More photos of the site post-removal are here: https://goo.gl/photos/xxTxe34HzTcnPozr8 (some are thanks to Alex Hackman of Mass. Fish and Game)