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Advanced Swarm Imaging for Three-Dimensional Mapping

Authors:
Martin L. Duncan
Paul D. Weil
Thomas J. Klemas

Keywords: Swarm Imaging; Internet-of-Things; cloud services; digital imaging; mapping; data visualization; high-resolution 3D imaging; Web services; APIs; sensemaking

Abstract:
The richness of detail and ease of usage of three-dimensional mapping has grown by leaps and bounds, but the equipment to create these images is very expensive to purchase and use. Inspired by the Internet-of-Things, Pluribus Technologies has developed a novel imaging approach that combines cybernetics and a plethora of tiny, inexpensive sensors with cloud-based data streaming, Web service and API-based image manipulation software, and cutting-edge Web technologies to enable advanced data visualization and imaging capabilities for numerous applications which previously were cost prohibitive or impossible due to practical limitations of size or space. This system repurposes pre-existing hardware and software components to transmit many streams of low-resolution visual data to a cloud-based server. These streams can be composed into a single detailed 3D image, which can then be viewed, downloaded, or edited collaboratively in real-time 3D on a Web-based client application. Swarm Imaging is achieved through potentially disposable components mounted on an aggregate of mobile units with a modern user interface for the client. Data can then be analyzed from images obtained in physical areas where humans do not wish to, or cannot, venture. Users will benefit from an end result of viewable, manipulable images processed using a high quality Web application client functioning on any device equipped with an A-grade browser. This invention will provide unprecedented terrestrial visualization for purposes of remote data analysis and sensemaking.

Pages: 7 to 10

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: October 9, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8599

ISBN: 978-1-61208-512-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 9, 2016 to October 13, 2016