WALKING THROUGH THE ULTRACAM STORY
From a publication presented at the ISPRS-Congress in Melbourne [Australia], August 2012
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1. 2000-2001: DECIDING ON ANÂ AERIAL CAMERA
1.1 Why Start a Camera R&D Project?
1.2 Assessing the 2000-Technologies
1.3 Inventing a Novel Technology
2.1 Users to Continue with Existing Workflows
2.2 The Geometric Accuracy
2.3 Superior Radiometry
2.4 Simultaneous Infrared for True and False Color
2.5 Digital Systems at the Film Camera Cost
3.1 Sufficiently Advanced Computer Technology
3.2 The Film-is-Dead Syndrome
3.3 The R&D Project and Schedule
4. MARKET ACCEPTANCE AND FOLLOW-ON PRODUCTS
4.1 Number of Cameras Sold
4.2 From UltraCam-D to UltraCam-Eagle
4.3 The UltraCam G and an Orthophoto-Robot
4.3 Software and Workflow-Products
5. EFFECTS ON PHOTOGRAMMETRIC WORKFLOWS
5.1 Increasing Image Overlaps
5.2 Smaller Ground Sampling Distances
5.3 Full Automation
5.4 Color and False Color Infrared
5.5 Urban 3D Modeling
6. PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND MICROSOFT
6.1 Bing Maps
6.2 Photosynth, Neo-Photogrammetry and MAV-Imagery
6.4 Microsoft Research
7. LITERATURE
SOME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE ULTRACAM STORY
Michael Gruber
Martin Ponticelli
Stefan Bernoegger
Bernhard Reitinger