POLISH SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING (PTFiT) 
NATIONAL REPORT 1992-1996 
for the ISPRS-Congress 1996 in Vienna 
  
J.Jachimski, R.Kaczyfiski, D.Bonarowska, M.Borowiec 
1.PRACTICAL APPLICATION 
OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY 
Productive implementations of photogrammetric method 
in Poland are connected with production of topographic 
and large scale maps and with data bases for GIS/LIS. 
Demands for new maps may be still observed, however 
growing needs for updating of existing maps are also 
noticed. Such works are performed mostly by means of 
conventional methods, or with the use of analog stereo 
plotters equipped with numerical output interface. 
After over ten years of rather low activity of practical 
implementation of photogrammetry, now again can be 
noticed some new projects. 
Thanks to the efforts of Principal Surveyor of the Country 
at his office a laboratory supporting practical 
photogrammetric applications was organised. Equipped 
in very modem Kodak/Hostert line (thanks to the 
Japanese government financial support) for automatic 
processing of aerial black and white and colour films the 
laboratory can service all civil aerial photographic 
projects. From 1995 in the frame of Phare European 
program Poland has got financial means for covering all 
country territory with aerial photographs of the scale 
1:26000 (colour diapositives) treated as a base for the 
new digital map and orthophotomap of the accuracy 
being equivalent of 1:5000 topographic map. At present 
over 2096 of the country area has already been covered 
with the new aerial pictures. There is also another big 
photogrammetric project just started. It is 1:5000 aerial 
pictures for the 18 biggest cities, which will serve as a 
basic for the high accuracy municipal data bank. And the 
third big aerial project, that time paid by budget, it is 
1:20000 aerial colour diapositives for the highway design. 
It is planned, that during coming 15 years (1995-2010) 
some 1.300 km of new highways will be build in Poland 
by private developers; in the 15% of the project price 
covered by the government there will be also costs of 
aerial photographs. 
At the Centrum for Cartographic and Geodetic 
Documentation full line for orthophoto production was 
installed thanks to the Japanese financial support. That 
line Helava-Leica consist of DSW 2000 scanner DPW 
770 photogrammetric workstation and photomap plotter 
Scitex. The first colour orthophotomap 1:5000 and 
smaller scale were successfully produced recently. 
International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXI, Part B6. Vienna 1996 
Except of those three main aerial photogrammetric 
projects there were some smaller local projects 
concerning large scale mapping for urban planning and 
cadastral needs. 
Except of the older analog plotters modernised for the 
needs of digital map, in the civil laboratories two 
analytical Zeiss stereoplotters (P1 and P3), two high 
performance digital stereoplotters (Leica DSW 200 and 
Howtek 4000), one DVP of Leica, and several other PC 
based digital stereoplotters: Digital Video Plotters 
developed at the University of Mining and Metallurgy in 
Krakow, and used for training and map updating. 
Close range photogrammetry covers mostly deformations 
measurement and recording of historic monuments, also 
with the use of digital stereoplotter VSD. 
2. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
a) At the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Kraków 
- Geographic Information System for monitoring of 
environment of Krakow region being under heavy 
ecological hazard was developed covering ca 40x40 km 
area (IDRISI, GRASS, ERDAS), 
The Video Stereo Digitizer as a LIS subsystem was 
analysed and technical & productional aspects of its 
use in vector and digital raster environment coexistence 
in the system were successfully defined, 
The analytical and numerical methods of multistational 
photogrammetric terrestrial pictures were compared 
and classified (ORIENT), 
- The ground soil moisture study with the use of remotely 
sensed images and the thermal inertia model were 
performed, 
The improvement was achieved in photogrammetric 
methods of determination of geometric parameters and 
deformations of constructions and industrial 
installations, 
- Methods of currant data updating for mining-geological 
digital model of an open pit based on remote sensing 
recording were further developed, 
Improvement was made in photogrammetric recording 
of historic monuments by introducing non-metric 
cameras, ORIENT terratriangulation system and digital 
stereoplotter VSD, 
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