The problem human face shape reconstruction basing on information about human skull is very important for many applications beginning with archeology and finishing with crime expertise. World recognition was received with a face shape reconstruction technique proposed by M. Gerasimov [1]. This method up to now is the general method for face reconstruction of unknown person. It operates with the...

The Planck mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) is designed to image the anisotropies of the Cosmic Background Radiation Field over the whole sky. To achieve this aim, sophisticated reflectors are used as part of the Planck telescope receiving system. The system consists of secondary and primary reflectors which are sections of two different ellipsoids of revolution with mean diameters of...

The present study investigated double sampling with regression estimators as a quest for efficiency and effectiveness in forest inventory in Namibian woodlands. Auxiliary data used were obtained from Standard QuickBird satellite scenes (phase 1) for Hans Kanyinga Community Forest from October and November 2004 covering an area of 12,107 hectares, amplified with terrestric data (phase 2) of 2002...

In an effort to supplement the available satelite-based positioning technology and extend such high level positioning capability to GPS-denied environments, a method of vision-based positioning with the use of single camera and newly defined 3D maps is proposed. Besides, only natural landmarks are required in the proposed method. Absolute position and orientation information can be provided in ...

This paper discusses the continuation of the research work started in 2004. The previous results have been published both in ASPRS and ISPRS conferences. Now we intend to emphasize the latest developments and extended application areas of the system. Due to the increasing demand of the transportation authorities for rapid, accurate data acquisition about the road pavement, a mobile mapping syst...

3D data capturing with laser scanner and digital photogrammetery has been established for 3D modeling with texture in civil engineering, architecture, industrial meteorology, cultural heritage etc. However there are several handicaps in those existing methods in developing inexpensive and handy 3D data capturing and processing at the site in terms of the weight, power supply, capturing and proc...

Nowadays the tenor of reports on applications of digital photogrammetric procedures consists of a unison message: processing modules of automatic image orientation are available in digital photogrammetric systems and with them the productivity is much higher than with all existing conventional photogrammetric plotters. In fact, interior and relative orientation procedures as well as automated a...

Numerical characterization of animal body forms using elliptical Fourier decomposition may be a useful analytic technique in a variety of marine mammal investigations. Using data collected from the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), we describe the method of body form characterization using elliptical Fourier analysis and demonstrated usefulness of the technique in photogrammetric mass-est...