Photogrammetric error sources and impacts on modeling and surveying in construction engineering applications

Visualization in Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dai, Fei ^a   Feng, Youyi ^a   Hough, Ryan ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

3D models; Construction management; Literature review; Measurement accuracy; Photogrammetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937536536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22137459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2213-7459-2-2     Document Type: Review

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