Surveying, Geomatics, and 3D Reconstruction

Abstract This chapter provides an overview of various surveying and computer vision techniques that can produce geometric and visual information necessary for civil infrastructure condition assessment and maintenance planning. One main objective of surveying infrastructure with computer vision is to acquire detailed and accurate geometric and visual data and construct digital models within given time and resource limits of the application scenarios. Aiming at this objective, this chapter defines domain requirements and resource limits in a quantitative manner and examines various computer vision techniques' capabilities for satisfying these domain requirements. After studying this chapter, readers should be able to select and apply appropriate surveying techniques for given domain applications that have specific domain requirement.