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Photogrammetry / Remote Sensing / Geospatial technology / GIS

Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:23

For those of you who don't know what photogrammetry is.... here are some web references about the subject:

Introductory Photogrammetry Information

Introduction to Photogrammetry
The Basics of Photogrammetry
Wikipedia's definition of photogrammetry


Applications of photogrammetry

Deformation Measurement of Two of the World's Largest Electric Motors
Fields of Application for Photogrammetry and Imaging in Archaeology
PhotoModeler's real world usage examples


Associations and Journals in photogrammetry/remote sensing and related topics

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
ISPRS - International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
RSPSoc - Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society

Class material / Tutorials

Remote Sensing using Microwaves
Tutorial: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data: A Guide to Good Practice
GIS Guide to Good Practice
Photogrammetry - A Practical Guide
Learning Geospatial Analysis

Misc Links

A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research
GIS FUNCTIONS - INTERPOLATION
Google's directory for photogrammetry
O Canada! Canadians and Open Source
Aviation Formulary V1.43 - Great Circle Navigation Formulae
Geometric Tools

Resampling Notes [Local Cache]
Brandon Lloyd and Parris K. Egbert, "Histogram Painting for Better Photomosaics [Local Cache], in Computer Graphics and Imaging , pp. 174-179, August 12-14, 2002.

Here is a pretty good page on Photon, Dark, and Bias Noise

Fundamental Matrix
Characterizing the Uncertainty of the Fundamental Matrix
A Robust Technique for Matching Two Uncalibrated Images Through the Recovery of the Unknown Epipolar Geometry

Correspondence
How to do Normalized Cross-Correlation Fast

Misc
Many good papers by Zhengyou Zhang also home @ microsoft
A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration

Hyperspectrial Imaging
Introduction to Hyperspectral Imaging - Good info.
ASTER Spectral Library - A open source library of spectral data.
SPy || Spectral Python


Existing Systems for creation of airborne othorectified mosaics
DAIS - A digital Airborne Imaging System

Some nice tutorials on image stuff.

ADAPTIVE LEAST SQUARES CORRELATION: A POWERFUL IMAGE MATCHING TECHNIQUE

WHOI Podcasts
Deep Sea Photo Mosaicing

Map Projection Resources

PROJ.4 - Cartographic Projections Library
Geographic Translator (GEOTRANS) proj.maptools.org

Image processing / Projection / Remote Sensing Libraries

OSSIM
OTB, the ORFEO Toolbox FAQ
GRASS GIS
OpenEV
FWTools: Open Source GIS Binary Kit for Windows and Linux
OGDI - the Open Geographic Datastore Interface.

A great little resource - MapTools.org
GeoNames Data Access

Interesting places on the earth: Marree Man
A Seamless Global Terrain Model in the Hipparchus System Hrvoje Lukatela, Geodyssey Limited
Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping Joint Hydrographic Center
GooberEarth
FOSS4G 2007


Data sources

Spot Image - FORMOSAT-2 images
High Resolution Imaging Satellite Systems
Telascience data feeds.
Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) - Data/Products
NGDC 3 Arc-Second Coastal Relief Model
SRTM30_PLUS: SRTM30, COASTAL & RIDGE MULTIBEAM, ESTIMATED TOPOGRAPHY

The Landsat-7 Science Data User's Handbook
How Google Earth [Really] Works
metaf2xml - parses and decodes aviation routine weather reports (METAR, SPECI), aerodrome forecasts (TAF), and synoptic observations (SYNOP)

BBC News - Camera infiltrates animal world - cool project where they mount cameras on birds to watch behavior.
New Scientist - Tool use by shy crows caught on camera

Celestia - a cool program to view information about the universe.
ORFEO Toolbox (OTB)

openModeller - Home


QGIS Community - About QGIS
GeoServer
PostGIS : Home
Aaron Racicot's Reprojected GIS Blog - Getting QGIS to install on windows AND support Python apps

RAT (Radar Tools) - SAR polarimetry, interferometry, PolInSAR and more
TerraServer-USA
Shaded Relief - ideas and techniques about relief presentation on maps.
PerryGeo » GDAL-based DEM utilities
A Free View of the World -- OpenAerialMap

regionator - A collection of Python classes and scripts for KML Region tools.
KML Map Server - turns your UMN MapServer installation in a flexible KML vector and raster data server.
OpenGTS - The Open GPS Tracking System


Panorama, Photo stitching, Image matching, blending, fusion

Enblend/Enfuse - combine images with no seams
Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher - based on Panorama Tools
Panini perspective tool | Get Panini perspective tool at SourceForge.net
Photosynth: A global 3D world on your PC! | Laura Foy | Channel 10
fxguide - vfx blog - Art of Optical Flow
Photosynth: A global 3D world on your PC! | Laura Foy | Channel 10


LIDAR

This really doesn't belong here, but it does include cool renderings of LIDAR data. Radiohead - House of Cards is entirely made up of visualizations of LIDAR data.... source and data are available for download from google code.
RADIOHEAD / HOUSE OF CARDS - Google Code - making of
They even have a web 3d viewer that you can use to explore the data.
RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code - viewer (flash)



Virtual Terrain Project - (uses C++ OSG, wxWidets, GDAL) gathers information and tracks progress in areas such as procedural scene construction, feature extraction, and rendering algorithms.
vtp - Google Code
MIT City Scanning Project


.NET GIS tools

Geotools.Net - is a set of .net class useful when handling geographic information.
SharpMap - Geospatial Application Framework for the CLR - Home - mapping library for use in web and desktop applications.
The Map Guy(de) - great blog with lots of map related info, developer for FDO.
fdotoolbox - Project Hosting on Google Code - FDO Toolbox is an multi-purpose geospatial tool to create, analyse, process and manage spatial data. It is written in C# and uses the Feature Data Objects (FDO) API (http://fdo.osgeo.org)


OpenLayers - javascript maps

OpenLayers: Home
Linux.com :: Displaying maps with OpenLayers


OpenStreetMap - is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.
Main Page - OpenStreetMap


GeoDjango - A world-class geographic web framework.
GeoDjango Installation — GeoDjango v1.1 documentation

GEOS - Trac - GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS enhanced topology functions.


PDX API - PDXAPI is a JSON API that provides access to geographic and real time data from Portland, OR.
gist: 536970 - loads geocouch datasets and visualizes them on an openlayers map. see it in action at http://pdxapi.com/preview.html- GitHub


SpatiaLite - Sqlite with GIS features

SpatiaLite download page
SpatiaLite Resources
Part 1: Getting Started with SpatiaLite: An almost Idiot's Guide

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