RESULTS OF TESTS
The results of tests on the UNAMACE
have been reported in Photogrammetric
Engineering? They are summarized below:
l. Operating as monocular comparators,
none of the eight tables of the first
equipments was more than 1.6 mi-
crometers outside the 4-micrometer
specification when first measured.
Linear scaling corrections are applied
in the computer calculations to bring
all tables within the desired tolerance.
2. Operating with a fictitious model (but
real photography) to minimize the
effects of errors from other sources,
the first two UNAMACESs had reported
C-factors of 4400 and 4800.
3. Operating with a real model, the two
equipments had reported C-factors of
1470 and 1500.
FIGURE 8—Orthophoto and Altitude Charts Prepared by UNAMACE
The models reported above were obtained
using 6-inch focal length, 0.6 base-height
ratio photography.
OUTPUT PRODUCTS
Figure 8 shows an orthophoto and
altitude chart produced by the equipment.
They were prepared at an original scale
of 25,000:1, twice the nominal photographic
scale, from 27,000-foot photography. The
altitude chart shows 20-foot contour inter-
vals (the region between adjacent contour
lines) as bands of a given gray level, with
the trinary sequence white, gray, black,
white representing contour intervals of in-
creasing value. The boundaries between
regions of different gray level are cur-
rently traced in a subsequent manual oper-
ation to obtain the contour lines. The
outputs show the results of approximately
200,000 measurements and an equal number
of elemental image transfers to prepare the
hy
(Altitude of Photography, 27,000 feet; Scale as Output, 25,000:1; Contour Interval,20 feet)
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