Aerial Photographs, orthorectification and mosaics for a beginner

Question

Hello, I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction to achieve this?

I've got several unreferenced aerial photographs I want to georectify and stitch together.

They're taken at slighty different heights and orientation and some are slightly oblique.

What would be the best way to go about orientating and stitching them together so they are all mosaiced together in the same image?

Any help greatly appreciated! 🙂

MohammadDashti · Answer

ArcGIS has georeferencing tools and mosaic dataset tools.

but to manage imagery captured at different heights, and to fix oblique images you'll diffidently need photogrammetry packages as Larry suggested.

if you have other georeferenced data like ortho images, maps, vector data (streets parcels), you can use georeference the images using 'georeferencing' tool bar.

Regards,
Mohammad

larryzhang · Answer

On your purpose & description, it may be easy to work with photogrammetry package like Leica LPS, SOCET, or PCI OrthoEngine, which provides camera models, triangulation /resection and bundle adjustment.

Please link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry and http://www.socetgxp.com/content/products/socet-set for more details

Hello, I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction to achieve this?

I've got several unreferenced aerial photographs I want to georectify and stitch together.

They're taken at slighty different heights and orientation and some are slightly oblique.

What would be the best way to go about orientating and stitching them together so they are all mosaiced together in the same image?

Any help greatly appreciated! 🙂