Simple Tools for Architectural Photogrammetry

In this paper a CAD application embedding photogrammetric procedures is described. Oleg Kolbaskin has originally created the CAD application and the photogrammetric procedures were programmed in the Department of Architectural Engineering of our Institute. The software can be used from both novice and experienced users in order to provide rectified images for cultural heritage documentation usage in the best quality using appropriate calibration and monoscopic image processing algorithms. Since it is based on a CAD environment further restitution and drafting can be followed in order to provide the 2D top view plans and facades’ plans of sites and buildings. The original images are calibrated and corrected using an advanced image processing software procedure that provides the final images to be rectified. The rectified images may be then produced using either the classical digital rectification algorithms of the central projection solution or the perspective geometry solution (geometry correction based on the determination of vanishing points).