The registration and geometric recti cation of airborne scanner imagery is an essential prerequisite for the processing and analysis of this type of images. The Digital Photogrammetric Assembly (DPA) is an airborne camera consisting of three pan-chromatic line arrays for stereo imaging and four line arrays for multi-spectral imaging. For georeferencing the sensor system is completed by a module...

In order to acquire quick, high resolution, affordable aerial photographs, an unmanned helium filled airship system equipped with a non-metric digital camera was developed in Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping. To meet the potential demand of large scale photogrammetric applications, the non-metric digital camera was calibrated rigourously based on the bundle adjustment with additional pa...

The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) is a part of the payload for NASA’s Terra spacecraft launched in December 1999. The MISR instrument continuously acquires a systematic, global, multi-angle imagery in reflected sunlight in order to support and improve studies of the Earth ecology and climate. This paper focuses on the photogrammetric aspect of the data production and discusses qu...

The generation of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) is one photogrammetric process that has been successfully automated. However, a common criticism surrounding DEM generation software currently available commercially, is the lack of quality assessment procedures. This paper describes a new system called the Failure Warning Model (FWM), which automatically detects low accuracy areas and presents ...

Data concerning heritage buildings are necessary for all kinds of building surveying and design. This paper presents a method creating precise model historical architectural landscape object with complex geometry. Photogrammetric techniques were used, combining terrestrial imaging photographs taken using UAVs. In large-scale objects, it is to divide the reconstruction into smaller parts adopt a...

The Photogrammetric Appendage Structural Dynamics Experiment (PASDE) is a Hitchhiker payload scheduled to fly as part of the International Space Station (ISS) Phase-I flight program to the Russian Space Station Mir. The objective of the first flight of PASDE on STS-74 is to obtain video images of the Mir Kvant-II solar array response to various structural dynamic excitation events. This experim...