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O.M.I. ANNOUNCES A NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE, 
LOW-COST ANALYTICAL STERECPLOTTER, 
THE AP5 - "BRAVO". 
Alfonso M.Colla 
Ottico Meccanica Italiana 
Roma - Italy 
Commission II 
ABSTRACT 
A new high-performance, cost-effective Analytical Stereoplotter System 
in the 4 um precision range, is presented. 
O.M.I. introduces this product as an extremely interesting working tool 
for all those applications in data aoquisition where the extreme precision 
and same of the costly features of higher class stereoplotters are not 
requested, but where the operating capabilities, with special recard to 
the present and future needs for numerical data collection, data-file and 
intelligent plotting, campatible with state-of-the-art photogrammetric 
processing are offered. 
INTRCDUCTION 
Ine Analytical Stereoplotter has been an everyday fact for many years, 
and we can now affirm that the impact of its introduction as a key element 
into the process of producing data for the map-makinc cammunity and anv 
type of data for any end-use requirinc a better and faster metric and 
thematic knowledge of the surface of not only this planet, was dramatic. 
Not to mention the new ways opened for the generally called terrestrial 
photogrammetry and for the numberless special applications, limited only 
by imagination. 
Very few or no doubts are left about the effectiveness of the analytical 
machine, the concerns about reliability are vanished by facts, the demon 
of "all those transistors and wires" was tamed. 
One aspect that deserves more and more attention by the manufacturers and 
that gives present and potential users legitimate reasons for new expect- 
ations is the search for better solutions to the performance-to-cost ratio. 
It is a known fact that for many years the manufacturers have considered 
the Analytical Plotter principle as a wonderful way of realizing very 
highly precise and universal stereoplotters without havina to struggle 
with the very costly and complex opto-mechanical solutions of the analogue 
devices. In other words, the Analytical machine was seen, in the becinning, 
as the technological transposition of the analogue machine. 
As a direct consequence of this, the users have seen the Analytical Plotter 
as a costly answer to the requirements of very hich precision, of compilation 
at exceptional scales, of special production needs. Simple and easy to use 
but still heavy on budgets. 
But it was evident to all that the performance-to-cost equation had more 
than one solution, that the Analytical principle could and had to be used 
for more economic althouch more performinc machines. 
O.M.I., among others, gives its contribution to this concept by introducing 
its new Analytical Stereoplotter, the AP5.