Data Collection (How to Digitize the World)

What do you do when you've found all the pre-recorded data that exists, but need more detail?  There are many places for which such data (aerial, satellite, road, vegetation, structures etc.) are either too expensive, inaccurate, or unavailable.

In the perfect world, there would be a device that you simply carry around, and it would sense and measure everything and build a database automatically.  Alternately, the device could be a UAV and you could collect your own data aerially.

GPS

eTrex
Consumer
topcon gr-5
Professional

Portable Data Collection Devices MIT wearable sensor

Surveying

Video/Photo Processing

LIDAR

Voice Recognition

Amateur aerial photography

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