GI3391 Photogrammetry Syllabus:

GI3391 Photogrammetry Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

 To introduce basics and concepts of optics, aerial photography acquisition and mapping from aerial photographs.

UNIT I PRINCIPLES AND PROPERTIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY

History – Definition, Applications – Types of Photographs, Classification – Photographic overlaps – Camera: metric vs. non-metric, Digital Aerial cameras – Multiple frame and Line cameras – Linear array scanner – Flight Planning – Crab & Drift– Computation of flight plan – Photogrammetry project Planning.

UNIT II GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Photo coordinate measurement – Vertical photographs -geometry, scale, Coordinate system, Relief displacement – Stereoscopes – Stereoscopic parallax – parallax equations -Geometry, Scale, Coordinate system – Relief displacement –- Photo Interpretation.

UNIT III STEREOPLOTTERS & ORIENTATION

Projection system, Viewing, Measuring and Tracing system Stereo plotters–Classification: Analog, semi analytical, Analytical and Digital systems – Interior orientation – Relative orientation – Absolute orientation – Collinearity condition and Coplanarity condition – Orientation: Two-dimensional coordinate transformations –Three-dimensional conformal coordinate transformation

UNIT IV AEROTRIANGULATION, TERRAIN MODELING, ORTHOPHOTO

model – Strip and blocks of photographs – Aerotriangulation: strip adjustment, independent model triangulation, Bundle block Adjustment and GPS Aerotriangulation (INS and GNSS integration) – feature collection – DTM generation and Contour mapping – ortho rectification – mono plotting – stereo plotting

UNIT V DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY

Photogrammetric Scanner – Digital Photogrammetry WorkStation – Work Station Basic system function – Storage System – Stereoscopic Viewing and Measuring System – Image properties – Image matching: template matching, feature based matching – DEM and DSM – Satellite photogrammetry principles

TOTAL:45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:

On completion of the course, the student is expected to
CO1 Understand and appreciate the importance of photography as means of mapping, functional and physical elements of photography.
CO2 Understand the need of the photogrammetric mapping and the relevance of accuracy standards and means to achieve them for precise large-scale maps with scientific methods.
CO3 Evaluate the standards of map based on the state-of-the-art tool and techniques and assess the production standards for photogrammetric map making.
CO4 Acquire knowledge on the current development, issues methods and solutions in map making and evaluate methods of production.
CO5 Analyze critically and evaluate methods by applying the knowledge gained and to be a part of innovation and integration of mapping technology.

TEXTBOOKS:

1. Paul. R Wolf., Bon A. De Witt, Elements of Photogrammetry with Application in GIS McGraw Hill International Book Co., 4thEdition, 2014.
2. E. M. Mikhail, J. S. Bethel, J. C. McGlone, Introduction to Modern Photogrammetry, Wiley Publisher, 2001.

REFERENCES:

1. Gollfried Konecny, Geoinformation: Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and Geographical Information Systems, CRC Press, 2nd Edition, 2014.
2. Karl Kraus, Photogrammetry: Geometry from Images and Laser Scans, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.2nd Edition, 2007.
3. Manual of Photogrammetry – American society of Photogrammetry & amp; R. S by Albert. D, 1980.
4. Digital Photogrammetry – A practical course by Wilfried Linder, 3rd edition, Springer, 2009.
5. Digital Photogrammetry by – Y. Egels& amp; Michel Kasser, Taylor & amp; Francis group, 2003.