Notes from the workshop.
Notes on capturing real places, making useful visual records and building a dependable small operation. Practical lessons, dated examples and corrections when our thinking changes.
What counts as finished
A model can finish processing before the job is finished. This month we wrote down what each Atlas visual output is for, what it excludes, and how we’ll check the handoff.
Read the post →The sentence we deleted
Updated September 15: local reconstruction does not mean imagery never reaches AI or hosted services. The current data-handling explanation.
Read the post →The flight plan is the product
A July farm capture taught us why overhead imagery and explorable 3D need different camera angles. The output starts with the flight plan.
Read the post →The aircraft is the cheap part
Equipment changes. A useful handoff needs clear files, context and access terms that account for that. A June workshop note, corrected in September.
Read the post →Building the operator before building the operation
An April note on the systems around a flight: capture records, processing history and a clear handoff. Updated to reflect current handling and scope.
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