The Photogrammetric Society existed as an independent learned society for some 50 years, from the 1950s to 2001. This period coincided with the growth of photogrammetry in the UK to become a well‐recognised and widely adopted methodology. A detailed history of the Society during that period was published by Atkinson and Newton in 2002. This paper attempts to give a more personalised view of the role

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This is an example of an original article in the layout expected by The Photogrammetric Record. The abstract is a concise summary of the essential elements of the paper and should not contain detailed results. It should be no longer than 150 words. This template indicates how a paper submitted to the journal should be structured and formatted, including figures, tables, mathematics and references.

This is an example of an original article in the layout expected by The Photogrammetric Record. The abstract is a concise summary of the essential elements of the paper and should not contain detailed results. It should be no longer than 150 words. This template indicates how a paper submitted to the journal should be structured and formatted, including figures, tables, mathematics and references.

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Photogrammetry does not exist in a bubble. There are a variety of techniques that compete with traditional image‐based photogrammetry. During the first decade of this century it seemed that traditional photogrammetry would be eclipsed by laser scanning, but its re‐emergence as a competitive technique is testament to its longevity. Of course, laser scanning (lidar) is not the only technology that competes

In the emerging digital economy , geospatial is not just about location. It is more about how the information revolution will affect human livelihood and the surrounding environment. The geospatial industry is uniquely placed in the entire digital transformation ecosystem. It is already established that location offers the much‐needed fourth pillar (along with AI, IoT and big data) to the fourth industrial

FIG Working Week brings together the international community of surveying and spatial professionals to discuss key challenges within the surveying profession with fellow peers. Theme: Smart surveyors for land and water management; Dates: 10th to 14th May 2020; Location: RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Contact: Amsterdam2020@geo-info.nl; Website: http://www.fig.net/fig2020/

The XXIVth International Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) will be held in Nice, France in June 2020. Each day will consist of a plenary session, with world‐class keynote speakers, together with up to six parallel sessions: Scientific track . Core scientific programme based around the five ISPRS Technical Commissions (TCs) and their working groups (WGs)

The internationally acclaimed Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is OSGeo’s annual global conference held in a different city around the world each year since 2004. The annual FOSS4G conference is the largest global gathering focused on open source geospatial software. Regularly attracting over 1000 attendees, FOSS4G brings together developers, users, decision‐makers and

ISPRS Working Groups I/2, I/6, I/7 and II/3 will contribute to the 2021 conference on mobile mapping. Dates: 26th to 28th May 2021; Location: Padua, Italy; Contact: masiero.andrea@gmail.com

Starting in 2019 (volume 34), The Photogrammetric Record has allowed authors, if they wish, to participate in the Open Science Badges scheme. The Center for Open Science (COS), based in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, has initiated a mission to increase openness, integrity and reproducibility of research. Open Science badges are a means of acknowledging open science practices, signalling to readers

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From 2015 to 2017, the ROSETTA‐Ice project comprehensively mapped Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf using IcePod, a newly developed aerogeophysical platform. The campaign imaged the ice‐shelf surface with lidar and its internal structure with ice‐penetrating radar. The ROSETTA‐Ice data was combined with pre‐existing ice surface and bed topography digital elevation models to create the first augmented reality

The traditional study of palaeoseismic trenches, involving logging, stratigraphic and structural interpretation, can be time consuming and affected by biases and inaccuracies. To overcome these limitations, a new workflow is presented that integrates infrared hyperspectral and photogrammetric data to support field‐based palaeoseismic observations. As a case study, this method is applied on two palaeoseismic

Volcanoes are a potential hazard to over 750 million people worldwide. Accessing them to install monitoring equipment can be logistically challenging and dangerous. Traditional monitoring equipment is expensive and not available to many local communities. A new, low‐cost method is proposed to address these challenges using a unique 3D thermal photogrammetric modelling workflow. The data acquisition

Structure‐from‐Motion (SfM) software and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly adopted in the geosciences. The current mainstream generation of 3D models is still expensive as it relies on UAVs, Differential Global Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS) ground control points and commercial software. This paper proposes an end‐to‐end reproducible SfM workflow with minimal legal, financial

Outcrop studies are often used as analogues to subsurface sedimentary reservoirs, with photogrammetry representing a useful technique to obtain quantitative geometrical data of sedimentary architectures. Digital photogrammetric techniques were used to study fluvial sediments of the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of the western USA. Model‐extracted statistics for channel and sheetflood elements, relevant

This paper provides geometric accuracy improvements for very high resolution WorldView‐2 (WV2) Ortho Ready Standard Level‐2A (ORS2A) satellite images in the panchromatic (PAN) band. The entire process can be divided into two steps: (1) sensor orientation, which was conducted on 40 ground control points (GCPs) to determine which sensor model was best depending on various numbers of GCPs; and (2) orthorectification

Registration is one of the most important tasks in mobile laser scanning (MLS) point cloud processing. This paper firstly reviews existing target‐free matching techniques as well as methods to evaluate the quality of the registration. Next, a new error metric is introduced that takes into account the residuals of check planes as well as their orientation. Experiments using real datasets in combination

In cost–benefit analysis of lidar data acquisition, point density is often artificially reduced in order to examine how this affects the quality of derived products. However, the performance of the different density reduction methods has not yet been compared and their influence on the accuracy of the models and results has not been evaluated. A novel method for reducing the point density, termed Proportional

The quality of 3D scene reconstruction and monitoring through structure‐from‐motion multiview stereo (SfM‐MVS) depends on critical key factors, including camera calibration and image network geometry. The goal of this paper is to examine the monitoring ability of an SfM‐MVS workflow based on four or more ground‐based digital single‐lens reflex (DSLR) cameras and to estimate differences when adopting

The number of tunnels is increasing sharply, especially in China, due to the development of urban rail transit networks. It is thus crucial to study rapid structural deformation detection methods for tunnels in operation. A dynamic tunnel monitoring system can directly obtain cross sections. However, using only odometers to locate the cross sections along the track of a tunnel results in insufficient

High‐speed cameras are able to effectively and efficiently obtain the location of moving objects over time in many practical applications. In order to meet the requirement for fast computing and processing in the object‐tracking process, this paper adopts parallel computing to process multiple video‐image sequences by using open multi‐processing (OpenMP) and single‐instruction multiple data (SIMD)

Rapid technological progress has made mobile devices increasingly valuable for scientific research. This paper outlines a versatile camera‐based water gauging method, implemented on smartphones, which is usable almost anywhere if 3D data is available at the targeted river section. After analysing smartphone images to detect the present water line, the image data is transferred into object space. Using

Mobile mapping relies on satellite‐based positioning, which suffers from line‐of‐sight and multipath issues. As an alternative, this paper presents a fully automatic approach for the co‐registration of mobile mapping and oblique aerial images to introduce highly accurate and reliable ground control for mobile mapping data adjustment. An oblique view of a scene introduces similarities as well as challenges

An automatic method for the regularisation of building outlines is presented, utilising a combination of data‐ and model‐driven approaches to provide a robust solution. The core part of the method includes a novel data‐driven approach to generate approximate building polygons from a list of given boundary points. The algorithm iteratively calculates and stores likelihood values between an arbitrary

In close‐range applications, it is unclear whether optical photogrammetry is capable of accurately reconstructing submillimetre‐scale roughness. This paper presents a study of fine‐scale rock fracture roughness measurements with a careful assessment of the error. The workflow combines the techniques of structure from motion with focus stacking, using consumer‐grade equipment and free or affordable

Full‐field deformation measurement of specific materials is an important issue in civil engineering materials testing. This paper presents a flexible videogrammetric scheme to measure full‐field deformation of an artificial rock‐like material under uniaxial compression. In this scheme, two high‐speed cameras were used to measure the spatial morphological changes of the material surface, which was sprayed

This paper proposes a new fringe projection scanner that uses a dual pattern to prevent phase retrieval errors or complications. The pattern comprises two horizontal and vertical patterns, however, just one of them is involved in computing the coordinates of an object point. To define the pattern, a photometric stereo component is used to extract the geometric properties of the object. The extracted

Over the past decade, underwater photogrammetry has been experiencing an increased interest due to the enhancement of camera performance and computing power. This study describes the test of two new methods to perform georeferenced underwater photogrammetry. The first one uses the coupling between photogrammetry by scuba diving and positioning with acoustic data from a multibeam echo sounder; the second

The existing binary voxel model algorithm for 3D building detection (3BD) from airborne lidar cannot distinguish between connected buildings and non‐buildings. As a result, a greyscale voxel structure model, using the discretised mean intensity of lidar points, is presented to support subsequent building detection in areas where buildings are adjacent to non‐buildings but with different greyscales

This paper provides an account of the development of the multi‐lens aerial photographic cameras that were constructed in the UK for topographic mapping purposes under the auspices of the Air Survey Committee during the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s. Three‐, five‐ and seven‐lens cameras were designed and built by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough and by Barr & Stroud in Glasgow;

The use of Global Positioning System (GPS) precise point positioning (PPP) on a fixed‐wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is demonstrated for photogrammetric mapping at accuracies of centimetres in planimetry and about a decimetre in height, from flights of 25 to 30 minutes in duration. The GPS PPP estimated camera station positions are used to constrain estimates of image positions in the photogrammetric

This paper describes a consensus‐set estimation for building roof‐plane detection using a stratified random sample consensus (sRANSAC) algorithm applied to point clouds acquired by laser scanning systems. The main idea is to use one initial classification to generate consensus‐set candidates to optimise the sampling mechanism compared to the original RANSAC. The initial classification is performed

ZY3‐02 is the first Chinese earth‐observation satellite equipped with a laser altimeter, designed to assist stereo‐image mapping elevations. Launch vibrations, the space environment and other factors, both expected and unexpected, cause bias in the designed ranging and pointing of the laser altimeter, influencing its height measurement accuracy. This paper proposes an in‐orbit geometric calibration

Manually monitoring and documenting trees is labour intensive. Lidar provides a possible solution for automatic tree‐inventory generation. Existing approaches for segmenting trees from original point cloud data lack scalable and efficient methods that separate individual trees sampled by different laser‐scanning systems with sufficient quality under all circumstances. In this study a new algorithm

With the gradually improving resolution of earth observation satellite images, attitude determination accuracy has become a key factor influencing image geometric positioning accuracy. However, high‐frequency attitude jitters caused by the instability of the satellite platform lead to image distortions which cannot be corrected by the low‐frequency star sensor and gyro attitude measurement. Therefore

Smartphones have widened the possibilities for low‐cost close‐range image acquisition for three‐dimensional (3D) modelling. They allow the rapid acquisition of large amounts of data for a wide range of applications. However, the accuracy of the models and the automation possibilities depend on the image acquisition conditions and application requirements. In this study, the accuracy and reliability

This study examines three sites in Alaska with unstable rock slopes that were surveyed using both terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and structure‐from‐motion (SfM) techniques. The datasets were acquired simultaneously and linked to a rigorous survey control network. An accuracy evaluation of the SfM‐derived surface models was performed using the TLS data and numerous reflectorless total station observations

This paper presents a technique for the calibration of a 360° dual imaging system (Ricoh Theta S) composed of two cameras with fisheye lenses specially mounted in a common structure. The experiments are based on calibration with a bundle adjustment using the equidistant fisheye lens model and relative orientation stability constraints, such as distance, base elements and rotation matrix between individual

By combining game engines with indoor mapping, it is possible to create interactive virtual environments that represent the real world. In this paper a virtual version of an audio installation in a historic building is produced, where the user freely explores the building and experiences a set of audio clips, creating a virtual radio play. A depth camera indoor mapping system, Matterport, captured

Mobile mapping technologies have contributed to close range photogrammetry becoming an efficient method for a wide range of applications over the last two decades. Advancements have included the integration of multi‐camera images and georeferencing data collected with a mobile mapping system (MMS). This paper proposes the use of a portable panoramic image mapping system (PPIMS), which is a specially