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Digital Photogrammetry: A Practical Course

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This book spends most of its space explaining how the reader can use the described software to perform photogrammetric tasks and calculations. It does talk about the concepts in a qualitative manner, but not a quantitative one. The author is honest about this and even explains in the preface that his target audience is geologists that are not interested in getting involved in the mathematics. Thus you'll see large chunks of chapters talking about what tasks are performed by particular menus on the software interface. If that is what you are seeking, this is the book you want. If you want to understand the math behind photogrammetry I must direct you to the more detailed and expensive Elements of Photogrammetry with Applications in GIS. That book has lots of equations and sample problems.

I give this book 5 stars if you are seeking software and a user's manual on software that will handle photogrammetric tasks for you. If you want to understand photogrammetry I'm afraid this book is badly mislabeled, and for that reason I give it one star for accuracy of title. This averages to three stars.

This book can seem a bit overwhelming at first. It is not a book you read quickly and completely understand. It can be time consuming. The software that is included is decent though, considering the book was a hundred bucks.

Totally useless for understanding photogrammetry. No math, no explanations beyond the utterly trivial, just a CD ROM and a software user guide. Don't waste you money. Zero stars.

Buy 'Elements of Photogrammetry' by Wolf and Dewitt instead - and get inside a real textbook that has it all.

Elements of Photogrammetry with Applications in GIS