16.31. icebridge_kmz_to_csv

This is a simple tool for use with data from the NASA IceBridge program.

It takes as input Google Earth compatible .kmz files from:

http://asapdata.arc.nasa.gov/dms/missions.html

which display the aircraft position at the point when each DMS frame image was captured.

This tool exports those camera positions in ECEF to a csv file which can be passed to bundle_adjust (Section 16.5) using the following parameters:

--camera-positions ../camera_positions.csv              \
--csv-format "1:file 2:lon 3:lat 4:height_above_datum"

This list is used to transform the camera positions and orientations from a local coordinate system to the ECEF coordinate system for the current planet.

This may be useful in conjunction with camera_solve (Section 16.12). See Section 9.4 for an example.

Usage:

icebridge_kmz_to_csv <input kmz file> <output csv file>