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14 Chapter 2. <strong>Digital</strong> <strong>Aerial</strong> Imagery<br />

Figure 2.2: Sixty images taken from the dataset Dallas. The scene is taken from highly<br />

overlapping viewpoints. In this work, we utilize the geometric redundancy to produced a<br />

holistic description <strong>of</strong> urban scenes.<br />

images (16 bits color) with 80%/60% overlaps and a pixel size <strong>of</strong> 12.5 cm, resulting a<br />

data volume <strong>of</strong> approximately 1.5 GBytes. This is an increase <strong>of</strong> the data quantity by two<br />

orders <strong>of</strong> magnitude and is at the core <strong>of</strong> achieving full automation <strong>of</strong> aerial mapping.<br />

Figure 2.2 depicts sixty highly overlapping images taken from Dallas.<br />

The high geometric redundancy is obtained by using forward and side overlaps, so<br />

that every point in the terrain is imaged at least 10 times, and any algorithm can rely on<br />

multiple analysis results that then can either reinforce or cancel one another. Figure 2.3<br />

shows a set <strong>of</strong> redundant scene observations taken from Graz. Every point on ground is<br />

mapped multiple times from different views. The proposed approaches make use <strong>of</strong> the<br />

high redundancy.<br />

The geometric redundancy additionally gets augmented by a radiometric redundancy

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