Engineering & Science Articles

21 articles listed in reverse chronological order. View articles by field type using links on the right.



The Case for Photogrammetry in Maritime Surveys
12/01/2018 | Jean Sans
The Report -
Applications: All, Engineering & Science, Industrial Measurement, Magazine Articles, and Surveying

“In this interview, we talk to Jean Sans of Experts-Yachts about the uses of photogrammetry in maritime surveys. An early adopter of the technology, Jean has been employing photogrammetry in his practice since 1983.”

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Physical scale model testing of a flexible membrane wave energy converter: Videogrammetric analysis of membrane operation
12/01/2017 | Jarrah Orphin, Alan Fleming & Cam Algie
International Journal of Marine Energy
Applications: All and Engineering & Science

Renewable energy, aside from the environmental benefits, is increasingly making economic sense. Wave energy is a viable form of renewable energy. In small-scale testing of wave energy converters (WEC), a key focus is on characterising the relationship between the primary converter and simulated power take-off system. If primary conversion is via the deformation of a flexible material, this task often requires non-contact measurement. In this paper, the authors introduce the development of an underwater non-contact measurement technique called videogrammetry, and its novel application to characterise the primary converter operation of a flexible membrane WEC.

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Sullivan Eastern Inc. Explores UAV Photogrammetry in their Construction Business
09/12/2017 | Alan Walford
Commercial UAV News
Applications: All, Engineering & Science, Geology & Mining, and UAS / UAV / Drone

A construction company based in North Carolina incorporates new drone photo technology with advanced software to calculate stockpile volumes quickly and efficiently, and in addition, create site topographic data.

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Survey of Ely Bridge, Monticello, Iowa
12/19/2016 | Harold Schuch, PE
Applications: All, Engineering & Science, and Surveying

The purpose of this project was to assess the feasibility to restore the Ely Bridge in Monticello, Iowa, a structure listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The author was invited by the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Colorado, Denver, to create a three-dimensional scaled wire frame of the bridge to be used in a finite-element stress analysis. This report describes the effort of creating this digital three-dimensional wire frame, using photogrammetric tools. This

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Full-scale flying shape measurement of offwind sails with photogrammetry
11/05/2015 | Julien Deparday, Patrick Bot, Frederic Hauville, Benoit Augier - Naval Academy Research Institute - BREST, France; Marc Rabaud - Laboratoire FAST, Univ. Paris-Sud, France
submitted to Ocean Engineering
Applications: All, Engineering & Science, and Industrial Measurement

“At full-scale, measuring the spinnaker shape in real sailing conditions (flying shape) is also valuable for sail designers as they would benefit a feedback for their designs. Nonetheless it remains complex to measure spinnaker flying shapes partly because of their inherent instability, like flapping of the luff. This work presents a full-scale experimental investigation of spinnaker flying shapes with simultaneous measurement of the aerodynamic loads on the three sail corners, as well as navigation and wind data. The developed experimental set-up and photogrammetric method to acquire the flying shape of the spinnaker are presented”

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The Use of the Terrestrial Photogrammetry in Reverse Engineering Applications
04/01/2015 | Naci Yastikli, Zehra Erisir, Pelin Altintas, and Tugba Cak - Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling
Applications: All, Engineering & Science, and Industrial Measurement

“The reverse engineering applications has gained great momentum in industrial production with developments in the fields of computer vision and computer-aided design. The reproduction of an existing product or a spare part, reproduction of an existing surface, elimination of the defect or improvement of the available product are the goals of industrial reverse engineering applications. The first and the most important step in reverse engineering applications is the generation of the three dimensional (3D) metric model of an existing product in computer environment. The possible usage of terrestrial photogrammetry in reverse engineering application is investigated based on low cost photogrammetric system. The main aim was the generation of the dense point cloud and 3D line drawing of the ship model by using terrestrial photogrammetry. Then 3D line drawing operations, point cloud and orthoimage generations have been accomplished by using PhotoModeler software. As a result of the proposed terrestrial photogrammetric steps, 0.5 mm spaced dense point cloud and orthoimage have been generated.”

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Rapid, low-cost photogrammetry to monitor volcanic eruptions: an example from Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA
10/21/2012 | Angela K. Diefenbach, Juliet G. Crider, Steve P. Schilling, Daniel Dzurisin
Bulletin of Volcanology
Applications: Engineering & Science and Geology & Mining

The authors describe a low-cost application of digital photogrammetry using commercially available photogrammetric software and oblique photographs taken with an off-the-shelf digital camera to create sequential digital elevation models (DEMs) of a lava dome that grew during the 2004–2008 eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano.

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INSTRUCTION MANUAL: PHOTOGRAMMETRY AS A NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM IN LARGE SCALE STRUCTURAL TESTING
08/16/2012 | Anahid A. Behrouzi, Rui Li ; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Applications: Architecture and Engineering & Science

The authors used PhotoModeler in structural testing. A camera and PhotoModeler were used to extract information about the overall geometry of specimens, as well as the XYZ motion of select points on the structure specimens during testing.

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Preserving Dinosaur Tracks on Dinosaur Ridge, Morrison, Colorado
12/01/2011 | Harold C. Schuch
ASPRS Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Dec. 2011, p. 1188
Applications: All, Archaeology, and Engineering & Science

“To what extent can terrestrial photogrammetry be used for displays andor engineering purposes? What is the state-of-the-art of the technology? What were the difficulties encountered, and how were they circumvented? These are the questions we asked as we set out to determine how best to photograph and preserve the dinosaur tracks on Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, Colorado…”

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DIGITAL CAMERA CALIBRATION USING IMAGES TAKEN FROM AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE
09/14/2011 | M. Pérez, F. Agüera, F. Carvajal
International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol. XXXVIII-1/C22
Applications: All, Engineering & Science, Geology & Mining, and UAS / UAV / Drone

For calibrating the camera, an accurate determination of the interior orientation parameters is needed. For more accurate results, the calibration images should be taken under conditions that are similar to the field samples.The aim of this work is the establishment of an efficient and accurate digital camera calibration method to be used in particular working conditions, as it can be found with our UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) photogrammetric projects.

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