Online Courses Handbook 2003

10445 (v.2) Digital Photogrammetry 681

Area:	Department of Spatial Sciences
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Other Requisite(s):	Admission: to a Postgraduate Spatial Science program.
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.