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In the last decade, the development of small, remotely operated multicopters with cameras, so-called drones, has made aerial photography easily available. Consumers and institutions now use drones in a variety of ways, both for personal entertainment and professionally. The application of drones in media production and journalism is of particular interest, as it provides insight into the complex interplay between technology, the economic and legal constraints of the media market, professional cultures and audience preferences. The thematic issue Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice presents new research concerning the role of drones in journalism and media production. The issue brings together scholars representing a variety of approaches and perspectives. A broad selection of empirical cases from Finland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US form the basis of an exploration of the changing relations between the media, technology and society. The articles address topics such as: Adaption of drone technology in the newsrooms; audience preferences and reactions in a changing media landscape; the relation between journalists and public authorities who use drones; and attitudes from journalistic practitioners as well as historical and future perspectives.

This article explores deterritorialisation of the human gaze and negotiations of animal life and environment through nonhuman vision. The article focuses on the aerial view and aesthetics of the wildlife documentary series Earthflight and the nature of the gaze in a more-than-human sense. Wildlife documentaries tend to represent animals in a way that imitates human vision while the anthropocentric gaze produces speciesed animals. However, the series Earthflight produces a perspective of a bird's-eye view through small cameras attached to birds' backs or drones gliding among a flock, providing images of flying in close proximity to birds' movements and bodies. I argue that with the concept of the 'more-than-human gaze,' it is possible to examine a perspective that binds together technology, nonhuman animals, and human viewers. The aerial filming extend a perceived territory towards nonanthropocentric vision. The bird's-eye view as the more-than-human gaze deterritorialises the human ways of looking, while showing that birds are not just objects to be looked at but rather active subjects to gaze with. This kind of assembled gaze produces new unfoldings of the environment, perceived not merely as a distant landscape to be admired but as a lived, material environment shared with other nonhuman animals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decade, the development of small, remotely operated multicopters with cameras, so-called drones, has made aerial photography easily available. Consumers and institutions now use drones in a variety of ways, both for personal entertainment and professionally. The application of drones in media production and journalism is of particular interest, as it provides insight into the complex interplay between technology, the economic and legal constraints of the media market, professional cultures and audience preferences. The thematic issue Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice presents new research concerning the role of drones in journalism and media production. The issue brings together scholars representing a variety of approaches and perspectives. A broad selection of empirical cases from Finland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US form the basis of an exploration of the changing relations between the media, technology and society. The articles address topics such as: Adaption of drone technology in the newsrooms; audience preferences and reactions in a changing media landscape; the relation between journalists and public authorities who use drones; and attitudes from journalistic practitioners as well as historical and future perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights • Iterative transform simulation is proposed to reduce the computational complexity of image matching. • A geometric method to evaluate the homography matrix is proposed to filter out wrong matching results. • Superior performance in terms of speed while maintaining accuracy in matching oblique aerial images. Abstract This paper presents a fast and accurate method for matching oblique aerial image pairs. In order to achieve accurate matching results, we must consider viewpoint differences between the input images in addition to rotation and scaling. Existing methods that match aerial image pairs with viewpoint differences undergo heavy computation and have difficulty finding correspondences. In this paper, we propose a homography matrix evaluation method based on a geometric approach to increase the accuracy of image matching results. In addition, we achieve faster matching through an iterative transform simulation that reduces computational complexity. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves aerial image matching in terms of computational efficiency while achieving successful matching results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]