8.0 SUMMARY
It can be seen that the MPS using reduced aerial photography can produce
results similar to that of a production mapping analogue instrument using
large format photography. However the MPS can be operated by people with
little photogrammetric training, is a relatively low cost photogrammetric
instrument, and it is very portable. The possibility now exists for up to
date photogrammetric data in "Microfilm" form to become generally
available to a large body of users.
Some work needs to be carried out to refine the photo-reduction process to
maintain high quality reduced diapositives and the MPS should be fitted
with a 10 micron floating mark for this type of work. If this work is
carried out and the combined lens distortion of the final diapositive
carefully determined, the results can be significantly improved.
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