Fossils

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Image collection

A given rig session will yield

• A number of cameras with ~1000 images. Each image will have a timestamp. File names may not be unique across cameras.
• A GPS log file with a sequence of timestamped waypoints.

We'll need to develop an image collector program (python/Linux?). This will first read in the GPS log file. Then you'll connect the various cameras, one at a time, to USB, and it will download their images. The outputs:

• A directory of all the images, with unique filenames.
• An 'image index' file, one line per image. For each image:
  • time
  • lat/long
  • filename
  • estimated size factor (meters/pixel)

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