Elevating visualization with drones
Have you ever seen a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)? Not to be confused with a UFO (although if you didn't know what you were looking at, it would be an honest mistake), UAVs, also called consumer drones, have exploded onto the scene in the last few years. They’re so popular they made it onto an episode of Modern Family. You might have even seen 1 buzzing around your neighborhood.
In addition to spying on your neighbors, UAVs are a great tool for scene re-creation through reality computing. A drone can capture images from every angle. By processing the images with Photo on Recap software, you can use them to create true-to-life models. This new approach to visualization has a ton of useful applications in everything from construction to disaster recovery to infrastructure concept design. You can create models of individual houses and buildings, potential construction sites, remote areas affected by floods—any area you can fly a drone over, you can capture. Larger scenes can also be broken up into smaller scenes, which can then be used in AutoCAD Civil 3D or Infrastructure software. We’re just scratching the surface of what we can do with UAVs and reality capture. And Autodesk is leading the way.
Watch as Autodesk drone whiz Mike Gemmell take us up, up, up and away, with his class on UAVs and reality computing. Mike has spent the last few years experimenting with different equipment and methods to figure out the best way to capture and process images for making reality computing models. Mike will tell you everything you need to know about equipment, including UAVs and cameras, how to select and set up your equipment for different use cases, photo sequencing, processing, editing, and more. You’ll also get to see current use cases for construction, and hear the latest on FAA regulations for commercial drone operation. If you work in the fields of infrastructure, construction, engineering, or natural resources exploration, you don’t want to miss this glimpse into the future of visualization, preliminary design, and project development.
Watch the full class: Extreme Reality Computing from a Hexacopter.
Fasten your seatbelts. We’re about to take off.
