I pursued this a little further out of curiosity and found the inventor's CV: [0] He had a publication on there belonging to "9th NATO Military Sensing Symposi

I pursued this a little further out of curiosity and found the inventor's CV: [0] He had a publication on there belonging to "9th NATO Military Sensing Symposium, 2017" from which papers/presentations are made public: [1], surprising! But I didn't find Massaro's paper there. I also searched for his "Videogrammetric Mapping from Unmanned Aerial Systems" but did not find it in ISPRS or elsewhere. A commercially available software that seems to use a similar method: [2] The Techcrunch article is likely a derivative of the earlier Techlink article: [3] [0]: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rmassaro/CV_Massaro_complete_20180816.pdf http://mason.gmu.edu/~rmassaro/CV_Massaro_complete_20180816.... [1]: https://www.sto.nato.int/publications/STO%20Meeting%20Proceedings/Forms/Meeting%20Proceedings%20Document%20Set/docsethomepage.aspx?ID=43014&FolderCTID=0x0120D5200078F9E87043356C409A0D30823AFA16F602008CF184CAB7588E468F5E9FA364E05BA5&List=7e2cc123-6186-4c30-8082-1ba072228ca7&RootFolder=%2Fpublications%2FSTO%20Meeting%20Proceedings%2FSTO%2DMP%2DSET%2D241 https://www.sto.nato.int/publications/STO%20Meeting%20Procee... [2]: https://www.pix4d.com/blog/underwater-mapping-videogrammetry https://www.pix4d.com/blog/underwater-mapping-videogrammetry [3]: https://techlinkcenter.org/new-us-army-software-rapidly-converts-live-drone-video-into-2d-and-3d-maps/ https://techlinkcenter.org/new-us-army-software-rapidly-conv...