How to Create an Aerial Panorama from Google Earth Peter Murphy
(one of the leading lights in the panoramic world) sent us a
email on Monday with the thought of creating panoramas from a
Digital Earth. The concept is simple - grab a series of screen
shots while rotating above the earth and then stitch the images
as if they were normal photographs. A day is a long time in
Internet based tutorials and this is now an update of the
original as a result of Gaby, a digital urban reader, writing a
kmz tool to dramatically simplify the process of capturing
screen shots. The whole process should take approximately 40
minutes. The first step is to go to Gabys Kmz Panorama Capture
Tool and type in the Lat/Long of the location you want to
capture - in our case above the Millennium Dome in London. To
create panoramas it is important to rotate the camera around the
nodal point of the lens in order to minimise any parallax error
as the scene is captured. Previous to Gaby's tool the best way
was to use the 'Flight Simulator