Polytechnic of Bari
Architectural Photogrammetry Laboratory
The photogrammetric archive


The objective set by the C.I.P.A. (Comité International de Photogrammétrie Architecturale) in its first meeting (Paris, 18 and 19 June 1970), was the establishment of an international archive of Photogrammetric Surveys of Architectural Heritage, duplicated and appropriately located in two secure centers.
The main difficulties that hindered the creation of this archive were essentially:

Today, thanks to digital cameras, photogrammetric surveying is within everyone's reach.
Once the concept of "normal case" has been clarified, anyone can calibrate their camera and use three simple 1st degree equations to program the return.
The StereoFot® 7.0 program, with its own archive, wants to be a concrete example.
If you think that:

it can be safely said that the only problem to solve, in order to carry out the survey, is to take the two photos without changing the direction of the optical axis: in practice it is sufficient to slide the camera along an "L" bar and measure the moving anywhere in the room.
For the return it is sufficient:


As for the results and, in particular, the accuracy of the survey, all that remains is to rely on the law of the Internet: unnecessary findings will not be consulted and will go down in the ranking!