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6. RAPID PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SYSTEM FOR 
EMERGENCY SURVEY 
In emergency survey, the necessity to collect in the field as much 
informations as possible, as quickly as possible, is well known. 
These requirements sometimes conflict with the application of 
high quality metric techniques, but the research of solutions that 
represent an acceptable compromise must be carried out. We will 
show this work, in progress, using direct photogrammetry, even if 
the object of study is not exactly an emergency situation. 
6.1 Data acquisition and processing system 
Cyclop system (a Menci Software product) is a revision of a 
stereometric cameras principle. It enables non experts to acquire 
stereoimages and to visualize a stereomodel without control points, 
the most demanding survey phase. This opens up digital close 
range photogrammetry to a great number of promising application 
areas, for example in small object classification, in those cases 
where it is impossible to signalize the object and, in general, in 
emergency cases. The acquisition system is an horizontal metal 
bar on a tripod, with a sledge run, on which it is possible to put 
any type of camera (Figure 14). To obtain stereoimages with 
known base and parallel optical axis, the sledge is fixed with a 
Figure 14. Acquisition unit and reference system. 
calibrated distance block. This geometric configuration guarantees 
the alignment and the complanarity of the fiducial axis and assures 
the acquisition of stereoscopic pairs without height-parallax. This 
system allow the use of any kind of camera in order to satisfy 
the requirements of the survey. It is equipped with a specific 
software (SVCyclop) that allows the immediate plotting without 
orientation phases. Required data are: a couple of images, cameras 
distance, approximate distance from the object and camera inner 
orientation. Measurements and vectorial restitution are possible 
either in stereoscopic mode, with appropriate hardware, or in 
monoscopic mode; in this case one image is fixed while the other 
Figure 15. Two couples of images taken with Cyclop system. The 
points on the images, have only been used to control the results. 
Figure 16. Restitution of three models with SvCyclop. 
can be moved in a window with a collimation mark. Acting on the 
elevation it is possible to eliminate horizontal parallax, moving the 
second image along the epipolar line. Image matching alghoritms 
support the process. 
6.2 An application 
The system, already tested in the small objects survey (Marino, 
Tucci, 2002), has been used to survey the facades of Villa Raggio 
in Asti (Figure 15). A calibrated Nikon D1 (fi=24mm) has been used 
at different distances. To cover entire buildings, 3 strips for every 
facade have been acquired, obtaining different model scale. A 
topographic survey has been carried out to measure control points 
to orient the same models in another photogrammetric software 
(Stereoview by Menci software) (Figure 16). So the restitutions 
obtained by Cyclop, without control points, have been compared 
with those obtained with Stereoview. It results that, in general, 
with distance inferior to 12 m, the system works well (althougth 
there are some problems to link different restitutions among them), 
and it can be used in all cases where external orientation is not 
possible or not required. Often, in cultural heritage the images are 
the only documentation that remain; this system, that can be used 
also by non photogrammetric experts, allows one to add a metric 
value at the acquired images. 
We have presented three different, simple applications of a survey 
of cultural heritage where while the task of the measurement, 
“how” to measure, might usually be solved quite clearly, the 
question of “what” to measure remain a permanent problem and, 
in general, requires great expertise on the part of the operator. 
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9. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
The authors gratly thanks Denis Prata for his work in S. 
Giorgio tavern; Marco Zavattaro and Daniela Turcato for 
their work in Povil Casaforte and Stefano Bianco for his 
work in progress on Villa Raggio.