Inverse Photogrammetry is used as a tool for visualizing projected developments or past situations within an existing environment. Usually traditional photogrammetric practice is followed with respect to data input, processing and output of inverse photogrammetric products. Since the purpose is visual inspection and overview rather than strict metric needs, fast and cheap methods for both the d...

Both improvements in camera technology and the rise of new matching approaches triggered the development of suitable software tools for image based 3D reconstruction by research groups and vendors of photogrammetric software. Based on dense pixel-wise matching, the photogrammetric generation of dense 3D point clouds and Digital Surface Models from highly overlapping aerial images has become fea...

The acquisition of 3D city and landscape models has been a topic of major interest within the photogrammetric community and a number of algorithms became available both for the automatic and semiautomatic data collection. Usually, these 3D models are used for visualisation in order to generate realistic scenes and animations e.g. for planning and navigation purposes. Such real-time visualisatio...

[1] CAHVOR is a camera model used in machine vision for three-dimensional measurements. It models the transformation from the object domain to the image domain using vectors C, A, H, and V and corrects radial lens distortions with a vector O and a triplet R. In photogrammetric mapping the camera model is usually represented by collinearity equations with interior and exterior orientation parame...

This paper focusses on the estimation of exterior orientation parameters of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) orbiting planet Mars during the European Mars Express mission since January 2004. One of the challenges for the photogrammetric processing of HRSC images is the low number of Ground Control Points (GCPs) on Mars which can be identified and measured in the images in the usual way....

Architectural heritage must be conserved by using contemporary approaches. Conserving the historical buildings depend on appropriate measurements and data related to their life history. At this stage, digital photogrammetric techniques and GIS (Geographical Information System) integration would be one of the best solutions. GIS has a capability to integrate and update graphic and non-graphic da...