Google Credit Programme: Google cloud computing support for structure from motion data processing

University of Portsmouth is lead on a European Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project with 12 academic, research and industrial institutions from across Europe including UK, France, Greece and Italy. The aim of the project is to develop a portfolio of very high resolution 3D virtual reality models of different natural hazards observed in the onshore and offshore environments for use as part of a toolkit in the university classroom to teach about onshore and offshore environments. The onshore virtual reality models are being generated using high resolution drone imagery (acquired using fixed wing UAV) and processed using a Structure from Motion (SfM) approach. This request for support would allow us to benefit from cloud based computing to speed up the SfM processing.