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Xth International Scientific and Technical Conference
From Imagery to Map: Digital Photogrammetric Technologies
Effective techniques for working in
PHOTOMOD
Alexandra Kiseleva
Manager of Technical Support Department
September 2010, Gaeta, Italy
Effective techniques for working in PHOTOMOD
 Resource system. Creating data structure
 Resource system. Network profiles management
 ADS imagery processing. Data preparation
 Import of orientation data for digital frame cameras
 UltraCam data processing. Metadata import
 Creating block layout for automatic tie points measurement
 Block layout accuracy control
 Improving block layout with DEM
 Show marker position in Google Maps and Yandex Maps
 Distributed processing
PHOTOMOD 5. Resource System
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Share1\
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Share1\
Share2\
Share3\
Data distributed over multiple
network shares
Logical virtual data tree in
PHOTOMOD Resources
PHOTOMOD 5. Resource System
Example: real production configuration
Several TB of data residing in 9
network folders of 3 file-servers
Resource tree in the
PHOTOMOD Explorer
PHOTOMOD 5. Resource System
Manage network configuration
from a single working place
PHOTOMOD 5. ADS imagery processing
Set of ADS Level 1 source files
Necessary ADS Level 1 files for each image:
*.sup
*.ads
*.odf
*.odf.adj
*.tif
Camera files with interior orientation data:
*.cam
misalignment.dat
PHOTOMOD 5. ADS imagery processing
Prepare ADS data
Solve ambiguities appearing when copying
Level 1 data from one computer to another
PHOTOMOD 5. Project creation. Import of orientation data
1) Obtain source images
 UltraCam images with metadata
 JPEG files with EXIF structure
2) Convert the imagery to MS-TIFF
 Metadata is extracted into separate XML files
3) Load the converted images into PHOTOMOD project
 MS-TIFF files with pyramid
 XML files with metadata
4) Use metadata information
 for automatic camera file creation and interior orientation
 for automatic block splitting into strips and block layout creation
PHOTOMOD 5. Importing UltraCam metadata
UltraCam metadata contains
 Interior orientation parameters
 Angular and linear exterior orientation parameters
 GPS-time
PHOTOMOD 5. Creating block layout for automatic tie points measurement
Source data
 Survey of mountainous terrain, 600 images
 Coordinates of projection centers
 Relief elevation 0-1300 meters
Accurate block layout helps to increase speed and quality of automatic tie points
measurement
PHOTOMOD 5. Block layout accuracy control
Right-click an image
Press D key to show ruler
Point search area exceeds 2000 pixels, it may lead to tie points misfiring.
It is necessary to improve the block layout
PHOTOMOD 5. Improving block layout with DEM
SRTM DEM fragment for the site
Before
After
PHOTOMOD 5. Show marker position in Google Maps
Service – Show in Google Maps
Google Maps
Clipboard
Check for consistency between
your project and the real world
Google Earth
PHOTOMOD 5. Show marker position in Yandex Maps
Service – Show in Yandex Maps
Check for consistency between
your project and the real world
Yandex Maps
Yandex Maps
PHOTOMOD 5. Distributed processing
File-server with
project data
Processing
workstations
Distributed processing is supported for
Converting images to PHOTOMOD format
Automatic points computing
Creation of orthophoto sheets
See you at Training classes on 22nd September!
Thank you for attention!