ISPRS
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Congress venue RAI, Amsterdam
ing different data sources and merging them with existing
topographic and elevation databases.
Wide Spectrum of Sensors
The huge need for geo-information has also resulted in the
emergence of a wide spectrum of airborne and space-
borne sensors. Direct recording of airborne imagery in dig-
ital format for high accuracy applications has long been
awaited. Today, it seems that we have finally arrived at this
point. The leading photogrammetric companies, Z/I Imag-
ing and LH Systems, have both put much
the photogrammetric process, we are stepping into an era
in which sensor technology is clearly moving into its zenith.
Exhibition
Entering the exhibition hall, it was not directly obvious that
photogrammetric products were on display. Any type of
show in the field of information and communication tech-
nology could have covered the floor. This is not at all a
negative indication. On the contrary, the way has been
paved for photogrammetry and remote sensing to become
effort into developing high accuracy digital
cameras. The design principles of the two
resulting cameras are quite different. Recent
issues of GIM International provide much
information about these cameras, together
with the pros and cons of the two underly-
ing design principles. In many technical
sessions the capabilities of these new sen-
sors were discussed. Other new types of
sensors that affect the appearance of the
profession are:
- High-resolution satellite imagery
- LIDARS, enabling, amongst other things,
automatic DEM generation
- SAR imagery
- |nSAR for DEM generation
In addition, the direct geo-referencing of data
produced by airborne sensors by using inte-
grated GPS and INS equipment is an impor-
tant achievement of the last decade. One of
the leading companies in this field, Applanix,
demonstrated its activities. With the broad
variety of initiatives at the acquisition end of
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director is Prof, Dr. M. Orhan Altan
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