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on 03-May-03 01:23 PM
Just got May issue of National Geographic. Very interesting stuffs on the Everest, a timely tribute to the 50th Anniversay of expiditions. Check out the online version of the magazine:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0305/feature1/index.html
Personally speaking, interesting part of the coverage was the 3-D modeling, which I thought was pretty amazing in terms of the use of advanced digital photogrammetric techniques.
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Similary stuff came out last year from Switzerland. I believe Prof Murai, one of the authorities in digital image processing, had led this team which included Prof. Armin Gruen and others.
http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/research/mounteverest/
They have done wonderful job of drapping a mosaic of very high resolution aerial photographs over 20m digital elevation model (DEM). This makes everything seemingly so real.
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