This paper presents a general overview of notable developments in close-range photogrammetry (CRP) over the past four decades, during which time both automated processes were introduced and the full transition from film-based to digital imaging cameras occurred. With these developments and more recent innovations centred upon so-called structure-frommotion approaches to network orientation, alo...

An audit conducted by the French consortium FIEF-SOFRECO has been undertaken in Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama, in order to identify local resources in terms of academic training for cadastral staff. This audit was funded by the World Bank and USAID, and its results were presented in a workshop held in Guatemala in November 2001. In this paper, the situation ...

The central perspective model is generally used in photogrammetry because of the high reliability, but it has a weak point that the initial values of orientation parameters are necessary due to the non-linearity. On the other hand, the model based on projective geometry, which is widely used in computer vision, can be treated as linear forms, but many indefinitenesses in the model leads to the ...

The construction industry remains one of the riskiest of all. This risk is mainly the result of a poorly controlled, and thus uncertain, environment. For instance, construction progress is often improperly controlled, resulting in some unnoticed errors with considerable impact on later project activities, and ultimately project success. Better progress control requires, among other things, bett...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.11.002 0924-2716/ 2015 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China. Tel.: +86 13913859225; fax: +86 02585898270. E-m...

Among the plenty of works so far presented on the use of laser scanning for cultural heritage survey, it can be noted that some geometric related issues have been not yet solved for. Most effort has been spent to achieve visually pleasant 3D models, mainly for VR applications, but only a few works addressed the metric and geometric accuracy of generated 3D models. According to such remark, in t...

The current process of asset creation in digital multimedia applications, such as movies and video games, requires tedious amounts of work. The average pipeline for creating one character model, for instance, takes an average of two weeks for the studio to implement, while still struggling to pass the uncanny valley for photorealistic rendering. Duplicating models from the real material world c...