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OCTOBER 2015
Asian Institute of Technology
OCTOBER 2015
Coming soon: A virtual AIT campus tour on Google Street View
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virtual street tour of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) will be available online by the end of the year courtesy of Google Street View. Embedded in Google Maps and Google Earth, AIT imagery will be a part of Google’s Street View University Campus series. The process of gathering geodata-rich images from AIT began on 1 September 2015, when the Google Street View car traversed the roads and lanes of the Institute for an entire day filming AIT’s clean and green campus. The Google Trekker, which is a 40-pound camera device, includes a Global Positioning System (GPS), laser scanner and has 15 lenses
pointed at different directions enabling the creation of a 360-degree panoramic views. After the imagery is captured and the photographs have been collected, they are processed and stitched together to create a panorama view. “We were considering different options to create a virtual campus so that people around the world can access our beautiful campus via the Internet, and it was decided to invite Google Street View to visit AIT,” Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat of the Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems (RS/GIS) field of study said.
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