applications for oblique aerial imagery

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Robert Carroll!Pictometry Canada Corp"!

Rob"Carroll@Pictometry"com!

INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY, POTENTIAL AND PROFITS

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Introduction!

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Oblique imagery provides immediate # more comprehensive way for people to

understand and plan!

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People have always been drawn to this natural perspective"!

click to add text!Human Perspective!

click to add text!Le$ vs" Right Brain!

Le$ Functions:!%uses logic!%detail oriented!%can comprehend!%order perception!%knows object name!%forms strategies!

Right Functions:!%uses feelings!%big picture oriented!%can &get it'!%spatial perception!%knows object function!%presents possibilities!

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click to add text!Panoramic (&Bird)s Eye View'* Maps!!&Civitates orbis Terrarvm' (pub"+,-.* ,/0 birds%eye views1 hand%colored engraving & etched!

!!What could be more pleasant than" in one#s own home far from all danger" to gaze in these books at the universal form of the earth $ $ $ adorned with the splendor of cities and fortresses and" by looking at pictures and reading the texts accompanying them" to acquire knowledge which could scarcely be had but by long and di%cult journeys?&'

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!Skills immigrated to America1 2satisfying a need to understand territory and encouraged urban growth!

!Thousands of prints of more than .1333 American cities made!

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click to add text!Oblique Aerial Photography!

+4,4 French photographer # balloonist !&Nadar' takes 5rst aerial image!

+44,!patents use of aerial photos in map! !making!

!!what Nadar had really done was to change the level of art to the level of science and utility" from the artistic drawing to an instrument of work$&'

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+636 5rst aerial photography taken from !airplane by Wright near Rome!

! !Maps used in WWI were produced !from aerial photographs!

!England took ,331333 photographs during WW I" !

click to add text!Aerial Camera Development!

!Camera failures until Fairchild develops internal shutter!

Commercial development:!+6.+ !+33 overlapping photo series to make ! !aerial map of Manhattan!

+6.. !discovers +433 buildings not on tax rolls!

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click to add text!Oblique vs Ortho Imagery!

click to add text!Metric Digital Oblique Imagery!

+66/ !Rochester NY group researches methods to !collect metric digital oblique images!

+660 !Pictometry founded1 patents computerized !system for displaying1 geo%locating1 and taking !measurements from oblique images!

!Pictometry creates new digital imaging process1 so$ware and hardware that maps each oblique image pixel to actual geographic coordinates!

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• New image capture system developed to e7ciently capture and process oblique imagery over large areas!

• Collects images at / oblique angles # cardinal directions and + nadir!

• Uses direct georeferencing to accurately geo%locates each image captured" !

• DEM referenced to image pixels to correct terrain displacement!

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PICTOMETRY CAPABILITIES!

•  ,/ imagery planes!•  ,38 processing sta9!•  +"/8 PB image data!•  .41333 :ight hours annually!•  6-,1333 miles of :ight plans !•  Seasonal throughput ;+133313338 images!

•  Processing capacity of up to +13331333 images per day"!

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•  Government: federal and state agencies and 0338 local government"!

•  Consumer use: Microso$® Bing Maps /",M hits monthly!

•  Commercial: insurance1 real estate1 banking1 retail1 and industrial!

•  International: license technology to 6 companies covering +,38 countries &territories"!

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click to add text!So$ware Applications!•  Electronic Field Study™ (desktop*1 Pictometry Online™ (Internet* and plugin modules for GIS!

•  Within so$ware are tools including:!– distance#area measurement!– height measurement!–  location measurement!–  elevation measurement!– query tool displays GIS attributes!– navigation through images!–  annotation to sketch labels1 markers1 and lines!

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click to add text!Property Appraisal!

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click to add text!Ports#Facilities Management!

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click to add text!City Planning#Land Development!

click to add text!Media Supplement!

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click to add text!Summary!

• Average users bene5t from digital oblique imagery!

• Applications include visualization1 measurement1 and planning!

• Online or desktop so$ware available!• Derivative data source for ;D city models!