2011 - Geoinformatics

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Digital Photogrammetric Technologies
Racurs Conference 2011
Tossa de Mar, Spain, was the location for the 11th Racurs conference. As always, this four-day conference
hosted two days of presentations about digital photogrammetric technologies, PHOTOMOD
software workshops and an excursion. The conference was attended by over 100 managers and specialists
from industrial enterprises and academic institutions from 21 countries which are using remote
sensing data and photogrammetric processing in their day-to-day operations.
By Eric van Rees
Introduction
The 11th International Scientific and
Technical Conference «From Imagery
to Map: Digital Photo grammetric
Technologies» was held in Spain in
the town of Tossa de Mar, which is
located approximately 90 km northeast
of Barcelona. The conference
provided ample opportunities for discussion,
learning and sharing experiences
in the field of digital photogrammetric
technology and remote
sensing. The conference was attended
by over 100 managers and specialists
from industrial enterprises and
academic institutions from 21 countries
which are using remote sensing
data and photogrammetric processing
in their day-to-day operations.
The Conference organizer was
Racurs Co., (Moscow, Russia) supported
by the International Society of
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
(ISPRS), Russian GIS-Association, and
the Society of Friendship, Cultural and
Scientific Relations with Spain. This
year NP AGP «Meridian+» (Russia)
came onboard as the Platinum sponsor
to the Conference. Gold sponsors
to support the Conference were:
VisionMap (Israel), Consulting Center
Zeminform of the State University of
Land Management (Russia), GeoEye
(USA), Sovzond (Russia), Innoter GIA
(Russia). Video Broadcast Sponsor
was ScanEx (Russia).
The conference offered a two-day
program of presentations, followed
by a day of masterclasses with DPS
PHOTOMOD. As always, this was followed
by a social program which
included a sports event, gala dinner
and lastly, an excursion to Barcelona
by bus.
Victor Adrov, managing director of Racurs
Armin Gruen asking a question of the presenter
Conference audience
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A selection of the
Conference presentations
The first conference day tackled four
different themes: General photogrammetric
and cartographic problems,
Digital cameras and aerial equipment,
Photogrammetric processing of digital
aerial imagery, and UAV aerial photography
and processing.
The second conference day consisted
of presentations on the following topics:
Modern space remote sensing
data, Photo gram metric processing of
space remote sensing data, Geo -
portals and SAR Surveys.
The conference was opened by Victor
Adrov, managing director of Racurs.
He introduced his Racurs team and
laid out the schedule of the conference,
as well as the themes to be discussed
during the presentations. A number of
presentations were to be delivered by
Racurs’ staff, mostly about the company’s
PHOTOMOD software, but also UAV
image processing capabilities and a
corporate administrative geoportal.
PHOTOMOD 5.2
Alexandra S. Kiseleva, Manager of
Technical Support Department, Ra -
curs, Russia spoke about the new
capabilities of PHOTOMOD 5.2, re -
leased last September. New opportunities
offered in this version included
special aerial triangulation tools for
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle data processing,
direct work with JPEG images
without conversion, orthorectification
“on-the-fly”, 3D models with textures
in 3D-Mod module and support for
GLONASS data. Also, just released
in September, was PHOTOMOD Lite,
which dramatically increases the
allowed data volume.
October/November 2011