>Exactly. I can't wait until I can do this with my own drone--though maybe I shouldn't hold my breath for the open source package because it seems to have milit

>Exactly. I can't wait until I can do this with my own drone--though maybe I shouldn't hold my breath for the open source package because it seems to have military applications right now. I produce 3D models from photogrammetry from drones for the Engineering & Construction industry in Australia. The free software to use is VisualSFM. I recommend flying your drone over your target in a sort of 4-circle Venn diagram, with the overlapping center the actual subject you want to scan. Have the drone pointing inward to the center of each circle while flying, the camera being at a ~55deg angle. You're essentially circle-strafing in 4 circles with a little overlapping bit in the middle. Take video footage of the whole trip and extract individual frames... can't remember if VisualSFM does that for you or not.