Historically flight management systems have been considered separately from the photogrammetric workflow. In fact, many times vendors of photogrammetric production systems have left the development of flight management systems to enterprising photo flight companies who commercialized an in-house development. Here we present a new approach to the overall concept of sensor management and demonstr...

During the implementation of the DGPF-project on Digital Photogrammetric Camera Evaluation a team “Digital Elevation Models” was established. The main goal was to use the test’s framework for documentation and evaluation of the current state-of-the-art on photogrammetric 3D data capture from automatic image matching. During these investigations the accuracy and reliability of DSM rasters and 3D...

In this pilot study, the authors tested whether photogrammetry can replace or supplement physical measurements made during autopsies and, based on such measurements, whether virtual computer models may be applicable in forensic reconstructions. Photogrammetric and physical measurements of markers denoting wounds on five volunteers were compared. Virtual models of the volunteers were made, and t...

Web-based photo albums that support organizing and viewing the users’ images are widely used. These services provide a convenient solution for storing, editing and sharing images. In many cases, the users attach geotags to the images in order to enable using them e.g. in location based applications on social networks. Our paper discusses a procedure that collects open access images from a site ...

This paper introduces a complex, low-cost road pavement measurement system designed primarily for pothole and crack detection. The onboard system is composed of a GPS/INS navigation unit, an image acquisition module, and a photogrammetric and imageprocessing subsystem. Due to the use of structured light and the availability of accurate navigation data, the 3D coordinates of the road points, in ...

This paper presents a summary of the 3D modeling work that was accomplished in preparing multimedia products for cultural heritage interpretation and entertainment. The three cases presented are the Byzantine Crypt of Santa Cristina, Apulia, temple C of Selinunte, Sicily, and a bronze sculpture from the 6 century BC found in Ugento, Apulia. The core of the approach is based upon high-resolution...

Compared with prime lenses, zoom lenses have inherent advantages in terms of operational flexibility. Zoom lens camera systems have therefore been extensively adopted in computer vision where precise measurement is not the primary objective. However, the variation of intrinsic camera parameters with respect to zoom lens settings poses a series of calibration challenges that have inhibited wides...

In spite of an undoubted richness of information produced by 3D optical technologies, in some cases, the method for generating a digital model from single 3D acquisitions involves the propagation of errors. These errors limit the overall metric accuracy attainable with such procedure. This happens when small 3D images are assembled together in order to model a large object. The authors present ...