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SECTION 3
NON TOPOGRAPHICAL OPERATIONS
In some cases it has been a little difficult to decide whether items reported
should come under this heading, or under section 4 dealing with research.
ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY.Dept. of Geography
Photography was taken with a Hasselblad 500 C camera of a portion of a
near-vertical cliff face near Cape Wrath. At the time of photography full
control was surveyed by theodolite intersection, of 6 orange markers suspended
by vertical lines down the cliff face in two groups of three. Photography and
surveying was carried out from a promontory facing the cliff at about 100 metres
distance. The restricted length of the promontory allowed only one stereo-
model. An experimental project to obtain metric and geographical/geological
information about cliff faces is still at a preliminary stage.
BKS SURVEYS LTD
A number of photogrammetric surveys have been undertaken from
photography obtained with a phototheodolite in connection with the restoration of
historic buildings, and the integration of existing shopping facades of great
character with new design concepts in urban renewal schemes. A micrographic
division has been in operation since 1970.
BUILDING RESEARCH STATION Garston Watford
During 1969 a project was started to examine the behaviour of a deep ex-
cavation in the Oxford clay. Photographs were exposed in the station's Wild P.30
phototheodolite, and these were plotted by Hunting Surveys Ltd. The drawings
were then used by the station to construct a transparent model at 1:250 to
assist in the research.
Another project was for the purpose of measuring the displacement of the
surface of a rockfill dam. Photographs exposed by the station were analysed by
Hunting Surveys Ltd in a Wild A7 Autograph with an EK5 readout to produce
three dimensional co-ordinates of particular targeted points, and of changes in
shape of the dam surface along particular profile lines.
Photogrammetric studies have also been made of joint influence on the
weathering of steep chalk faces and to determine joint disposition and material
volume after slide failure in Oxford clay. In addition photogrammetry has been
used for monitoring a deep steep rock cutting on the trans-Pennine motorway.
Similar applications of photogrammetry to the station's work are envisaged.
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY School of Built Environment
The school has used photogrammetry in connection with various
archaeological studies (126, 127, 129, 130).
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