Photogrammetry

doi:10.1117/3.2553485.ch15

Photogrammetry

Book: Photonics Rules of Thumb, Third Edition

Author(s): John Lester Miller, Katie Schwertz, Edward J. Friedman, John N. Sanders-Reed, Brian K. McComas

Published: 2020

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2553485.ch15

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Abstract

In its most general form, photogrammetry can be thought of as extracting quantitative information from an image, most often metric position and orientation data. When applied to video (sequences of images), the term videogrammetry is sometimes used to highlight the temporal or time history aspects of the problem. Photogrammetry is applied to a wide range of applications in fields such as automotive crash tests, biological motion studies (both medicine and sports), manufacturing, rendezvous and docking, aircraft refueling, motion capture to drive animations, and quantifying target dynamics, to name a few.