{"id":1029,"date":"2013-01-16T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T20:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2013-12-10T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:41:08","slug":"kite-aerial-photography-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2013\/01\/kite-aerial-photography-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Kite aerial photography gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Photography School has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\/61-amazing-kite-aerial-photography-images\">gallery of kite aerial photography<\/a> (or <em>KAP<\/em>, as it&#8217;s called amongst insiders):<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/levalet\/6593088481\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" title=\"Le Mont Saint Michel (Manche-FR) by levaletfrancois, on Flickr\" alt=\"Le Mont Saint Michel (Manche-FR)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7152\/6593088481_8a2d0aa4b3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Mont Saint Michel, France (\u00a9 Fran\u00e7ois Levalet, www.francoislevalet.fr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have to date built various kites myself and actually also one of the KAP rigs shown in the gallery and have done some KAP experiments myself. KAP is lightweight, can produce affordable aerial photography and is thus an interesting acquisition method for spatial data. For these reasons it is sometimes used for archaeologic studies and exploration, see for example <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/40960558?uid=3737760&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=4&amp;sid=21101540262403\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/40287757?uid=3737760&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=4&amp;sid=21101540262403\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite ever more popular quadro- and other copters and their advantages (for example, no need for wind), I think KAP may keep a niche, for example in applications where noise may be an issue or where an especially heavy payload needs to be lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Photography School has a nice gallery of kite aerial photography (or KAP, as it&#8217;s called amongst insiders): I have to date built various kites myself and actually also one of the KAP rigs shown in the gallery and have done some KAP experiments myself. KAP is lightweight, can produce affordable aerial photography and is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2013\/01\/kite-aerial-photography-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kite aerial photography gallery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Nice kite aerial photography gallery, meet the inexpensive aerial photography solution #KAP #GIS:","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[32,52,55,71,84,106,119],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","tag-data-acquisition","tag-geo","tag-gis","tag-mapping","tag-photography","tag-spatial-data","tag-uav"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mont_st_michel1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-gB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}