Are the photogrammetric benefits are fairly communicated to the others outside the mapping community? I do understand the historical evolution of photogrammetry, but I'm looking for ways to expand the use of photogrammetry and in turn its market.
Hi Gamal,
I think the strengths of photogrammetry aren't much appreciated outside of the geomatics discipline. I read an interesting editorial about this regarding computer vision, a field which frequently faces the same optic problems as photogrammetry, but the authors claim it doesn't much reference work or theory from photogrammetrists:
Granshaw, S. I., & Fraser, C. S. (2015). Editorial: Computer Vision and Photogrammetry: Interaction or Introspection? The Photogrammetric Record, 30(149), 3-7.
There are clear examples of it being used, though I'm only aware of commercial geomatics applications - like how building facades are mapped onto 3d solids in "street view" applications like Bing and Google maps.
Cheers,
P
Hi Gamal,
did you already try actual Plug In moduls included GIS software environment, for example Quantum GIS new versions? Maybe it could work . Cheers , Andrea . J.
Dear Andrea:
First of all thank you very much for your answer. Yes, I do have QGIS and others such as GRASS, ArcGIS 10.1, and others. My question is along this line of thinking: Do the scientists outside the mapping community are fully aware of the benefits of photogrammetry.
I agree with Paulo Raposo. Even in Geography lots of students don't even know what photogrametry is, or that we have to be able to use it to be precise in mapping.
Advantages coming from photogrammetry are more or less understandable among professionals. But even among them there are those who treat orthophoto just like a picture, a nice background, not using it for any measurements. On the other hand, for an ordinary citizen orthophoto is the simplest way to do and understand things in the context of space, because almost everybody recognizes their home, road or anything else around them on the orthophoto.
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