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Other Artifact Photogrammetry areas:

Development and Implementation of a Rapid Low-Cost Photogrammetric Data Archival System for Artifact and Osteological Inventory

Anne Gisiger
Eben S. Cooper
Yew Yuan
W. Frederick Limp

Final Report
NPS Grant Number: MT-0424-4-NC-22
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

March 1996

INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND
- A. CLOSE-RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY
  - 1. Surveying monuments and buildings
  - 2. Museum research and rock painting
  - 3. Modelling surfaces
  - 4. Biostereometrics and medical applications
  - 5. Underwater photography
  - 6. Monoscopic/convergent photogrammetry
  - 7. Photogrammetry in archeology
- B. THE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC PROCESS
- C. NON-METRIC VS. METRIC CAMERAS
  - 1. Lens distortion
  - 2. Need for a film flattening mechanism
  - 3. Defining the film position in the camera body
OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS UTILIZED
- A. THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTROL FIELD
  - 1. Control frames for horizontal photograph
  - 2. Control frames for vertical photographs
- B. ARTIFACT PREPARATION
  - 1. Shadow
  - 2. Object Texture
  - 3. Object Orientation
  - 4. Documentation
- C. PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT AND SETUP
  - 1. Camera body
  - 2. Lenses
  - 3. Film sensitivity, resolving power and longevity
  - 4. Camera movement system
  - 5. Light source and lighting method
  - 6. Exposure
- D. PROCESSING DATA WITH A SOFTCOPY PHOTOGRAMMETRY SYSTEM
  - 1. Interior orientation
  - 2. Relative orientation
  - 3. Absolute orientation
  - 4. Stereo resampling and image analysis
RESULTS
- A. SMALL OBJECTS AND SMALL VERTICAL CONTROL FRAME
- B. SMALL/MEDIUM SIZE OBJECTS, LARGER VERTICAL CONTROL FRAMES
- C. LARGER OBJECTS AND HORIZONTAL CONTROL FRAME
- D. PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF MEASUREMENT DEV. IN X, Y and Z
ALTERNATIVE METHODS
CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES