Remote Sensing for Underwater Photogrammetry

Dear Colleagues,

Underwater photogrammetric surveying through images acquired by divers and unmanned underwater vehicle has been used for many applications in the oil industry, archaeology, and biology. The accuracy needed for the applications has changed from some cm level to high-accuracy level requirements (less than 1 cm accuracy), such as for multitemporal analysis for change detection purposes, depending on the camera settings used and the distance to the imaged object.

We have assisted toward a significant evolution of underwater cases and dome ports and camera characteristics.

Particularly useful for modern underwater photogrammetry has been the utilization of structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry. Structure-from-motion photogrammetry and underwater imagery allow three-dimensional quantification of submersed structures characteristic at patch scale and structural complexity.

There has also been significant improvement in integrated applications using photogrammetry, acoustic surveying, laser-based methods, and hyperspectral sensors.

We would like to invite you to submit articles on new instruments, methods, algorithms, datasets, and their applications to underwater objects and structures measurements, managed by divers or by unmanned vehicles and 3D model generation; we would also like to invite you to submit articles on new methods using deep learning and machine vision to different wavelengths including hyperspectral, acoustic, and laser-based methods.

Finally, we aim to address problems related to the semantics of generated 3D models and to gather original research on application and background issues arising from the design of conceptual models, ontologies, and semantic web technologies applied to underwater archaeology, naval archaeology, and more generally digital human sciences (DH).

Prof. Dr. Alessandro Capra
Dr. Pierre Drap
Guest Editors

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