THE GESTALT PHOTOMAPPING SYSTEM

The Gestalt Photo Mapping System is made up of the GPM II and GPM Plotting System. The GPM II is a computer-controlled, auto-correlating, analytical photomapper. It is composed of two scanners, an automatic image correlator, a control computer, an operator's console, and one or two printers. A typical stereomodel is completed automatically in less than an hour and a half after a 10 minute operator-assisted analytical orientation. Principal topographic output consists of a 700,000-point digital terrain model (DTM) on magnetic tape: Planimetric output consists of an orthophoto on 20 X 25 cm stable-base film. The GPM Plotting System is an off-line automatic DTM processing system. It consists of a disk-based minicomputer and plotter. Smoothed contours and slope maps may be plotted at map scale with annotation in less than an hour and a half. A GPM III orthophoto and GPM Plotting System contours may be combined without editing by using conventional photographic techniques to produce a reproduction-quality contoured orthophot map in less than a day. /Author/

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Photogrammetry

  105 North Virginia Avenue
  Falls Church, VA  United States  22046
• Authors:
  • Kelly, Re
  • McConnell, PRG
  • Mildenberger, S J
• Publication Date: 1977-11

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 1407-17
• Serial:
  • Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
  • Volume: 43
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • ISSN: 0099-1112

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data plotters; Equipment; Information processing; Magnetic tapes; Mapping; Minicomputers; Orthophotographs; Photographs; Scanners; Topography
• Old TRIS Terms: Plotting; Scanning; Stereoscopic plotters
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00168416
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Conf Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 1978 12:00AM