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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Main Author: L. Polidori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2020-08-01
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