Photogrammetry III

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. explain the advantages, disadvantages, characteristics and uses of digital images; 2. acquire and process digital photogrammetry data using appropriate instruments; and 3. demonstrate the understanding of bundle and block adjustments in photogrammetry.

Review of photo-coordinates determination. Collinearity and coplanarity principles, bundle and block adjustments. Processes and tasks involved in digital photogrammetry. Generic digital photogrammetry environment and integration with GIS and CAD systems. Software & hardware requirements for digital photogrammetry and digital photogrammetric work stations. Advantages and characteristics of digital images. Spatial, radiometric and spectral resolutions, geometric accuracy, digitization, sampling, quantization of grey levels and noise. Data acquisition for digital photogrammetry using digital cameras, scanners. Data compression, image processing, image enhancement and restoration techniques and image resampling.