Some Recent Developments in Non‐topographic Photogrammetry

Abstract

Equipment manufactured in connexion with the special applications of photogrammetry has developed from very early designs, often with remarkably few changes. The first section of the paper traces this evolution up to the present time. Architectural photogrammetry has been, since Meydenbauer, one of the most important of these special applications and the second part describes some recent work of this type in England and Jordan.

Uses of Photogrammetry in the Study of Buildings

“…Redelius has been using a wide angle Rolleiflex camera held at whatever angle may be convenient in the particular situation and Shmutter has developed computer programmes such that the information obtained from a comparator can be converted to ground co-ordinates, even if the photographs are tilted, convergent and at varying scales, so giving the maximum freedom and flexibility in recording. An analytical approach is not of course new in itself and has been used at University College London (Atkinson, 1969) in the study of the vaults of Westminster Abbey and Beverley Minster, but there has not been a great deal of practical development in this field.…”

“…One wall of one transept had been plotted and some further photography had been taken when difficulties of staff and finance interrupted progress. In the summer of 1969, Crompton (1969 carried out a survey at the Minster to co-ordinate 5 fixed points which form a ring traverse around the outside of the building and to which all subsequent survey work could be related. However it now seems unlikely that a complete survey of the Minster will in fact be carried out.…”