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Calculating area covered by a photo from the Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 4:51 pm
by TheCoderChild
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help our team with this question as we have got into stage two of the Astro Pi competition. What area of ground coverage would we get from a single photo taken from the ISS? We would like to have photos of the entire flight path and we need to know how often to take a photo to get complete coverage. Please help.
Re: Calculating area covered by a photo from the Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 5:12 pm
by gordon77
Here's the spec showing coverage angles, do you know the height of the iss?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... re/camera/
V1 and V2 cameras
Re: Calculating area covered by a photo from the Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 5:23 pm
by TheCoderChild
thanks for the reply, the height is 408km but i am not sure how to work this out
Re: Calculating area covered by a photo from the Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 6:12 pm
by gordon77
This site
https://www.scantips.com/lights/fieldofview.html suggests the following... 494km x 370km.
Worth getting a second opinion!
Re: Calculating area covered by a photo from the Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 6:28 pm
by TheCoderChild
thank you very much
Re: Calculating area covered by a photo from the Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 7:06 pm
by bensimmo
There should be photos from the ISS from last year's event (or the year before maybe)
Where, I don't know but ask the organisers.
You then have something to compare against.