Directed study and research. Fundamentals of digital image acquisition: sampling, quantization, resampling and error sources. Charge-coupled device (CCD) architecture, operation and error sources. Automated interior, relative and absolute orientation. Image matching techniques: signal-based, feature-based and relational, with emphasis on cross-correlation and least squares matching. Use of eipipolar constraints in image matching. Multiresolution analysis and image pyramids. Digital image rectification. Feature extraction. |