advanced activities with gps: robogeo & google earth
DESCRIPTION
Advanced Activities with GPS: RoboGeo & Google Earth. Prepared by:. John McGee Jennifer McKee. With support from:. NSF DUE-0903270. in partnership with:. Geospatial Technician Education Through Virginia’s Community Colleges (GTEVCC). Photo2GPS. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Advanced Activities with GPS:RoboGeo & Google Earth
With support from:
NSF DUE-0903270
Prepared by:
in partnership with:
John McGeeJennifer McKee
Geospatial Technician Education Through Virginia’s Community Colleges (GTEVCC)
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Photo2GPS
• A free software program that associates GPS track files with digital photographs
• Created by the Geospatial Extension Educator at the University of Connecticut
• Only works with Windows XP (does not work with Vista or Windows 7....)
• Can be downloaded from http://clear.uconn.edu/geospatial/GPSResources.htm
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Photo2GPS (software)
• We are not going to work with Photo2GPS, but I wanted you to be aware of it...
• We are going to work with RoboGEO
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RoboGEO
• RoboGeo is very similar to Photo2GPS• It is a bit more “powerful”• More functionality...• User-friendly• There is a “free trial version”• 1 license of the real version costs $79• 10 license “lab kit” is $399• More information at: www.robogeo.com
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Final Product
Red icons are photos
Click on icon to see photo taken at that location
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Work Flow
GPS tracks
Take pix. photos
KML file
University of Connecticut, Geospatial Technology Program
Take photo of GPS unit with Time displayed
RoboGeoSoftware
Carry GPS receiver and automaticall
y collect trackpoint
data
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Picture taken at 15:42:28 which puts the picture at
2/3 of the distance between the track points
24 seconds between track points
Track points w/ date and time
displayed
Interpolated Photo Locations
University of Connecticut, Geospatial Technology Program
2007/04/02-15:42:44 2007/04/02-15:42:32 2007/04/02-15:42:18 2007/04/02-15:42:03
15:42:28
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Using RoboGeo
• Detailed instructions have been developed. These instructions are available from the Virginia Geospatial Extension Program Website
• http://www.gep.frec.vt.edu (under “Cool Tools”)