Photogrammetric networks for positional accuracy
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1. A surveying system for determining the location of an object point from images, said surveying system comprising:
- two image gathering devices coupled at a known relative distance, each said image gathering device adapted to generate an image;
a global positioning system providing an absolute position of a first capture point; and
a location calculator, said location calculator having a plurality of instructions enabling said location calculator to correlate at least two reference points appearing on two images obtained with the two image gathering devices at the first capture point with reference points appearing on images obtained at a second capture point to obtain correlated reference points, and to determine the position of the object point based on the correlated reference points and the absolute position of the first capture point.
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Abstract
The present invention involves a surveying system and method which determines the position of a object point using two images. First, at least two reference points appearing on the two images are correlated. Then the position of the object point is determined based on the two images and the two reference points.
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1. A surveying system for determining the location of an object point from images, said surveying system comprising:
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two image gathering devices coupled at a known relative distance, each said image gathering device adapted to generate an image; a global positioning system providing an absolute position of a first capture point; and a location calculator, said location calculator having a plurality of instructions enabling said location calculator to correlate at least two reference points appearing on two images obtained with the two image gathering devices at the first capture point with reference points appearing on images obtained at a second capture point to obtain correlated reference points, and to determine the position of the object point based on the correlated reference points and the absolute position of the first capture point. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. In a surveying system, a method of determining the position of an object point, said method comprising the steps of:
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obtaining an absolute position of a first capture point with a global positioning system; correlating at least two reference points appearing on two images obtained at the first capture point with reference points appearing in second images obtained at a second capture point to obtain correlated reference points; and determining the position of the object point based on the correlated reference points and the absolute position of the first capture point. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A machine-readable program storage device for storing encoded instructions for a method of determining the location of an object point, said method comprising the steps of:
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obtaining an absolute position of a first capture point from a global positioning system; obtaining images from two image gathering devices coupled at a known relative distance; correlating at least two reference points appearing on two images obtained at the first capture point with reference points appearing on images obtained at a second capture point to obtain correlated reference points; and determining the position of the object point based on the correlated reference points and the absolute position of the first capture point. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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