Product Description

This text for students and professionals looks at 'photogrammetry' - the use of aerial photographs for surveying. This is a unique book as no other text looks at 'digital' photogrammetry.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1546540 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 376 pages

Geo-Hebdo
The book has been well produced in a soft cover edition and is heavily illustrated...this is very interesting work.

From the Back Cover
Photogrammetry, the use of photography for surveying, is primarily used for the production of maps from aerial photographs. Along with remote sensing, it represents the primary means of generating data for geographic information systems.

Photogrammetry has undergone a dramatic evolution in recent years with its transformation into "digital photogrammetry". Firstly the distinctions between photogrammetry, remote sensing, geodesy and GIS are fast disappearing, as data can now be carried digitally from the plane to the GIS end-user. And secondly the benefits of digital photogrammetric workstations have increased dramatically. The comprehensive use of digital tools, and the automation of the processes, have significantly cut costs and reduced processing time. The first digital aerial cameras have become available, and the introduction of more and more new digital tools allows the work of operators to be simplified, without the same need for stereoscopic skills. Engineers and technicians in other fields are now able to carry out photogrammetric work without reliance on specialist photogrammetrists.

This book shows non-experts what digital photogrammetry is and what the software does, and provides them with sufficient expertise to use it. It also give specialists an overview of these totally digital processes from A to Z. It serves as a textbook for graduate students, young engineers and university lecturers to complement a modern lecture course on photogrammetry.

Yves Egels and Michel Kasser have synthesized the contributions of 24 top-ranking specialists in digital photogrammetry, lecturers, researchers, and production engineers, and produced a very up-to-date text and guide.

About the Author
Egels; Yves IGN, LOEMI, Saint-Mande, Cedex, France,Kasser; Michel IGN, LOEMI, Saint-Mande, Cedex, France,

Customer Reviews

A good overview of Digital photogrammetry and applications
The book is a good guide of Digital Photogrammetry and its application in different fields, I specially enjoyed the explanation by the editors and the part devoted to Architecture, the collected articles are well organize and provide scientific information to people that are not familiar with these techniques