In recent years, there have been an increasing number of portable devices, tablets and Smartphone’s employing high-resolution digital cameras to satisfy consumer demand. In most cases, these cameras are designed primarily for capturing visually pleasing images and the potential of using Smartphone and tablet cameras for metric applications remains uncertain. The compact nature of the host’s dev...

The complementary characteristics of LiDAR and photogrammetric data continuously motivate the integration of both systems and the benefits of integrating them have already been proven by many researchers [1], [2]. To fully utilize the synergic characteristics of these data, they should be georeferenced to the same reference frame; hence, the importance of a proper co-registration methodology is...

Some of the important technical characteristics of photogrammetric system are the speed of 3D acquisition, automation and possibility for smart operating. Using structured and coded light allows to solve correspondence problem fast, robustly and accurate. And applying of PC-controlled structured light provides a possibility to make a step to highly automated and intellectual photogrammetric sys...

In the context of high precision metrology tasks in heavy radiated areas questions arose concerning the applicability of digital cameras for photogrammetric purposes under these special conditions. The background for this problem is the conceptual design of a particle accelerator. After initial installation some areas of the new facility will not be accessible due to an expected high level of n...

Community involvement in gathering and submitting spatially referenced data via web mapping applications has recently been gaining momentum. Urban forest inventory data analyzed by programs such as the i-Tree ECO inventory method is a good candidate for such an approach. In this research, we tested the feasibility of using spatially referenced data gathered and submitted by non-professional ind...

Camera calibration has always been an essential component of photogrammetric measurement. Nowadays, with self-calibration being an integral and routinely applied operation within photogrammetric triangulation, especially in high-accuracy close-range measurement. Photogrammetric camera calibration is usually carried out together with the calculation of object coordinates such as principal distan...

Monitoring vegetation recovery typically requires ground measurements of vegetation height, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown great promise for characterizing vegetation in a cost-efficient way, but the literature on specific methods and cost savings is scant. In this study, we surveyed vegetation height on seismic lines in Alberta...

Recent developments of digital cameras in terms of size of Charged Coupled Device (CCD) arrays and reduced costs are leading to their applications to traditional as well as new photogrammetric, surveying, and mapping functions. Digital cameras, intended to replace the conventional film based mapping cameras, are becoming available along with many smaller format digital cameras capable of precis...