Creating Maps From Drone Imagery by Bobby Sudekum.
From the post:
Here is an end to end walkthrough showing how to process drone imagery into maps and then share it online, all using imagery we collected on a recent flight with the 3D Robotics team and their Aero drone.
Whether you are pulling data from someone else’s drone or your own, imagery will need post-capture processing.
One way to prevent illegal use of drones would be to require imagery transmission to include identifying codes and on open channels. Reasoning that if you were doing something illegal, you would not put your ID on it and transmit on an open channel. I may be wrong about that.
We have littered the ocean, land, space and now it appears we are going to litter the sky with drones.
More data to be sure but what use cases justify degradation of the sky?