Historical Structure from Motion (HSfM): Automated processing of historical aerial photographs for long-term topographic change analysis

F Knuth, D Shean, S Bhushan, E Schwat… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Precisely measuring the Earth's changing surface on decadal to centennial time scales is
critical for many science and engineering applications, yet long-term records of quantitative …

Reconstructing morphometric change in a proglacial landscape using historical aerial photography and automated DEM generation

E Schiefer, R Gilbert - Geomorphology, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper explores the feasibility of using historical aerial photographs and digital
photogrammetric procedures to reconstruct morphometric landscape changes in a …

Tapping into the Hexagon spy imagery database: A new automated pipeline for geomorphic change detection

J Maurer, S Rupper - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2015 - Elsevier
Declassified historical imagery from the Hexagon spy satellite database has near-global
coverage, yet remains a largely untapped resource for geomorphic change studies …

Solving photogrammetric cold cases using AI-based image matching: New potential for monitoring the past with historical aerial images

F Maiwald, D Feurer, A Eltner - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the ongoing digitization in archives, an increasing number of historical data becomes
available for research. This includes historical aerial images which provide detailed …

Joining multi-epoch archival aerial images in a single SfM block allows 3-D change detection with almost exclusively image information

D Feurer, F Vinatier - ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 2018 - Elsevier
Archival aerial imagery is a worldwide resource for documenting past 3-D change at very
high-resolution. However, external information is normally required so that accurate 3-D …

Automated processing of declassified KH-9 hexagon satellite images for global elevation change analysis since the 1970s

A Dehecq, AS Gardner, O Alexandrov… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Observing changes in Earth surface topography is crucial for many Earth science
disciplines. Documenting these changes over several decades at regional to global scale …

[PDF][PDF] Image-based surface reconstruction in geomorphometry–merits, limits and developments of a promising tool for geoscientists

A Eltner, A Kaiser, C Castillo, G Rock… - Earth Surface …, 2015 - esurf.copernicus.org
Photogrammetry and geosciences are closely linked since the late 19th century. Today, a
wide range of commercial and open-source software enable non-experts users to obtain …

Mitigating systematic error in topographic models for geomorphic change detection: accuracy, precision and considerations beyond off‐nadir imagery

MR James, G Antoniazza, S Robson… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and structure‐from‐motion photogrammetry enable
detailed quantification of geomorphic change. However, rigorous precision‐based change …

Structure-from-motion using historical aerial images to analyse changes in glacier surface elevation

N Mölg, T Bolch - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
The application of structure-from-motion (SfM) to generate digital terrain models (DTMs)
derived from different image sources has strongly increased, the major reason for this being …

'Structure-from-Motion'photogrammetry: A low-cost, effective tool for geoscience applications

MJ Westoby, J Brasington, NF Glasser, MJ Hambrey… - Geomorphology, 2012 - Elsevier
High-resolution topographic surveying is traditionally associated with high capital and
logistical costs, so that data acquisition is often passed on to specialist third party …