Demand for drones is exploding!
Dupin wants to aggregate aerial imagery from around the globle at Dronestagr.am.
In the near future we could experience something close to google maps, made with aerial pictures.
Remember that drones have top-view camera and front-view camera which gives more possibilities in terms of what you can do with collected data. With such a huge database and a little bit of 3D geometry we could get e.g. a 3D map of the world... I guess google can derive something like that already from their streetview images however obviously street view covers some relatively small part of the globe and also can not access places that UAV can.
The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes.
"With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world. (stand December 2009)"
Daring statement... I'm not quite sure, but I'd quess microscopic images used in medicine can easily reach terapixels...
What a waste of pixels anyway... they weren't able to find a bit more interesing city?