ON LAUSSEDAT’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE EMERGENCE OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY
The French officer Aimé Laussedat (1819–1907) is often considered as the “father of photogrammetry”. Indeed, he was the first to use photographic images for topographic surveys as early as 1861, based on a technique he called metrophotography, which he had already implemented with hand-drawn perspec...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2020-08-01
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Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
Online Access: | https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLIII-B2-2020/893/2020/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-893-2020.pdf |