Penn State Surveying Program

SUR 222
Photogrammetry

 
Catalog Data 222. PHOTOGRAMMETRY (3) Basic principles of metric photogrammetry with single and stereo-pair photos; coordinate transformations; map production using stereo imagery; flight planning. Prerequisites: SUR 162.
Textbook Wolf, Paul R. Bon A. Dewitt. 2000. Elements of Photogrammetry with Applications in GIS, 3rd Ed. McGraw-Hill, New York. ISBN 0-07-292454-3.
On-line notes.
References Slama, Chester C., et al. 1983. Manual of Photogrammetry. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Coordinator Frank Derby, Associate Professor, Surveying Engineering Program
Goals This course teaches basic principles of photogrammetry using single and stereo pair photographs and map production using stereo imagery.  Technological advances in digital photogrammetry (softcopy photogrammetry) will be introduced including practical application using Erdas Orthobase software.
Prerequisites by Topic
  1. Understanding of procedures to document measurements and results of calculations including basic procedures of statistics and determining significant figures.
  2. Understanding of theory and practice of basic plane surveying procedures.
  3. Understanding of procedures of computer-aided drafting and mapping.
Topics
  1. Introduction to photogrammetry
  2. Principles of photography and imaging
  3. Cameras and Imaging devices
  4. Image measurements and refinements
  5. Vertical photographs
  6. Stereoscopic viewing
  7. Stereoscopic parallax equations
  8. Stereoscopic plotting instruments
  9. Principles of Softcopy photogrammetry
  10. Plannimetric mapping methods
  11. Ground control for aerial photography; flight planning
  12. Flight planning
  13. Exams
    1. 1 hour
    2. 2 hours
    3. 1 hour
    4. 2 hours
    5. 4 hours
    6. 3 hours
    7. 2 hours
    8. 2 hours
    9. 4 hours
    10. 2 hours
    11. 3 hours
    12. 2 Hours
    Laboratories
      1. Determination of shrinkage/expansion on Vertical photo
      2. Photo coordinate measurement and refinement.
      3. Parallax: monoscopic methods.
      4. Parallax: stereoscopic methods.
      5. Introduction to Imagine Orthobase software
      6. Stereo image processing - Interior Orientation
      7. Stereo image processing – Exterior Orientation
      8. Mapping of the W-B campus using softcopy methods
        1. 1 lab
        2. 2 labs
        3. 2 labs
        4. 2 labs
        5. 1 lab
        6. 1 lab
        7. 2 lab
        8. 3 labs
        Computer Usage Students use Imagine Orthobase Pro (softcopy photogrammetry software) during the second half of the semester during lab sessions to perform interior-, relative-, and absolute orientations using least squares methods. They then develop line and topographic maps from aerial photos of the campus.  They also use Photoprg software for coordinate transformation.


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