Complete Photogrammetric System Calibration and Evaluation in the Sjökulla Test Field – Case Study with Dmc

In the future field calibration and testing will be fundamental parts of photogrammetric production lines. The complete field calibration/testing concerns geometric, spatial, radiometric and spectral properties of the systems, and it is a crucial supplement to the laboratory calibration. In this article a method for complete calibration/testing of digital photogrammetric sensors, based on the Sjökulla test field of Finnish Geodetic Institute, is briefly described and its use is demonstrated with digital large format photogrammetric camera DMC. The tested DMC proved to be a high quality photogrammetric sensor. However, the flight testing revealed some parts of the system and processing, which could be further improved to obtain even higher image quality. * Corresponding author