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Photogrammetric Methods

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This entry summarizes contents from the Manual of Photogrammetry (Abdel-Aziz and Karara 1971)

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Bundle adjustment; Camera model; Central perspective; Central projection; Fundamental matrix; Image pair; Image triplet; Methods of photogrammetry; Multiple-image bundle block; Object reconstruction; Sensor orientation; Single image

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The classical task of photogrammetry is the recovery of information from images of a scene (McGlone 2004). This entry mathematically describes the geometry of single-perspective images, image pairs, image triplets, and blocks of several images. The notion “image” is very broad. Most widely used are images of frame cameras, i.e., the image is a 2D mapping from 3D object to 2D image space where the entire frame is exposed simultaneously through a lens. It is assumed that a unique projection center exists, so that the light rays between object and image points pass through a single point. In some cases, in particular when generating 2D images with...

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  • Abdel-Aziz YI, Karara HM (1971) Direct linear transformation from comparator coordinates into object space coordinates in close-range photogrammetry. In: Proceedings of the symposium on close-range photogrammetry. American Society of Photogrammetry, pp 1–18

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  1. Computer Vision and Remote Sensing, Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany

    Olaf Hellwich

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  1. Olaf Hellwich
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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Hellwich, O. (2017). Photogrammetric Methods. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_981

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