ISPRS Commission III, Vol.34, Part 3A „Photogrammetric Computer Vision“, Graz, 2002
Figure 3. TP detection on orbit 2578 for camera Df and Aa.
impose match in pyramid or an operator would need to measure
one TP on all images to supply a correction to initial match.
5. CONCLUSION
A multi-image TP detection algorithm was designed and success-
fully applied to the triangulation of MISR imagery globally. The
hierarchical approach leads the detection to a maximum coverage
across all images and all surface lands. Generic TP detector is flex-
ible in application, very reliable benefit from the relational-based
matcher, and accurate with the enhancement from the area-based
matcher. The system could be potentially applied to or adapted to
different types of multi-image matching.
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author gratefully acknowledges the efforts of the MISR Sci-
ence Data System Team: Graham W. Bothwell, Mike A. Bull, Earl
G. Hansen, Veljko M. Jovanovic, and Mike M. Smyth. This
research is being carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal-
ifornia Institute of Technology, under contract with the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration. For further information,
see MISR web site at: http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov.
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