Definition
Photogrammetry is the science and technology of obtaining information about the physical environment from images, with a focus on applications in surveying, mapping and high-precision metrology. The aim of photogrammetry is to provide automated or semi-automated procedures for these engineering tasks, with an emphasis on a specified accuracy, reliability and completeness of the extracted information.
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Photogrammetry is a long-established engineering discipline, which dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century, shortly after the invention of the photographic process. It has its roots in surveying, predominantly for aerial mapping of the earth's surface, although terrestrial “close-range” photogrammetry has always been an integral part of the discipline. Traditionally photogrammetry has emphasized 3D geometricmodeling of the environment, since in an interactive setting this implicitly encompassed the semantic interpretation of the image content. The use of...
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Schindler, K., Förstner, W. (2014). Photogrammetry. In: Ikeuchi, K. (eds) Computer Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_139
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