Hi, I ran a snall company in Malaysia www.geosense.info that is using UAV for limited aerial photo for mapping and town planning. For quite sometime we have been testing Microsoft ICE for aerial image stitching, it is faster compare with PT GUI but unfortunately there is no manual adjustment. Sample of stitched images is http://www.geosense.com.my/sample_uav_image/Index.htm
Even tho ICE gives good overall view of the aerial area covered by our UAV but we find that there is also many point where the joint between images ran out or not match perfectly, if you browse sample of above link especially along the road. How ICE can solve this problem to become a perfect stitching tools for large aerial photo.
Also please advice how to work with Microsoft in hosting aerial photo like virtual earth etc. Thanks.
Ismail, we did a prototype of using ICE to stitch historical aerial photos here:
http://brisbane.soulsolutions.com.au/
We're using the CTP Bing Maps Silverlight control, use the little slider at the top to move through the years.
The program you need to overlay your stitched image onto Bing Maps (formerly virtual earth) is called MapCruncher, another awesome project from MSR:
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/mapcruncher.aspx
And to complete the set of MSFT tools you can host the tiles in Windows Azure Blob storage ;)
Also have you tried uploading your UAV photos to photosynth? They just launched a new vertical mode, aerial example here:
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=293c48dc-f814-4967-9a09-e187a5fffce4
John.