Photogrammetric Week '15
7.-11. September 2015, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Some Stuttgart Highlights of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Dieter Fritsch1
1 Institute for Photogrammetry, University of Stuttgart, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract. The Institute for Photogrammetry at the University of Stuttgart has made substantial contributions to photogrammetry since its launch on April 1st, 1964, first under the supervision of Fritz Ackermann. Since June 1st, 1992 Dieter Fritsch suceeded and continued the profile in photogrammetry, but started R&D in remote sensing and geoinformatics as well. In the following some highlights of the last decade are given to demonstrate the performance of an university institute to investigate open issues in research, developments and applications. Following some proposals of the 1970s and 1980s new concepts for camera self-calibration are given, and the dense image matching software SURE is successfully succeeding the area-and feature-based matching algorithms. Most recently a comprehensive study was started to exploit the potential of SURE for DSM generation of High Resolution satellite imagery, such as WorldView-2.