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SVI 231 Elements of Photogrammetry

200 levelEnvironmental Sciences9 topics

SVI 231 covers 9 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Definition and historical development of photogrammetry
  2. Aerial photography: scale, vertical and oblique photographs
  3. Photogrammetric optics and metric cameras
  4. Ground coverage and resolution
  5. Image coordinate measurement
  6. Mapping from single photographs (rectifiers, mosaics, orthophotography)
  7. Electromagnetic radiation and the spectrum
  8. Reflectance and photographic material properties
  9. Introductory stereoscopic vision and parallax

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Definition and historical development of photogrammetry

Photogrammetry is the science, art, and technology of obtaining reliable information about objects and the environment from photographs and other recorded images. For examination purposes, you must master both the definition of photogrammetry and how it developed historically from simple photo-based measurement to modern digital and satellite-based systems, because this shows why the field is important in mapping,…

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