How to Use photogrammetry in a Sentence

photogrammetry

noun
  • Using a process called photogrammetry, Hood’s team can use the photos to build a three-dimensional map of the basin.
    Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Akasheh spent three years using photogrammetry to gauge the stability of rocks in the Siq, the main entrance to Petra.
    National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2016
  • This is where photogrammetry, an in-screen tool that converts images from two to three dimensions, can help.
    Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Carter Emmart worked with a group of students to use photogrammetry to breathe new visual life into the old Hasselblad imagery of the Moon.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2018
  • Through photogrammetry, the science of making measurements from photos, Christiansen and his team then analyzed the images to compare the lengths and widths of the two whale species.
    Brian J. Skerry, National Geographic, 20 May 2020
  • The photogrammetry booth is an area surrounded by hundreds of cameras, sometimes arranged in an orb shape and sometimes around a square room.
    Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 25 July 2023
  • The team returned to the cave to create a 3-D model of the site with photogrammetry, a technique in which thousands of high-resolution photos are stitched together.
    Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2022
  • According to a press release, the researchers were able to use photogrammetry to measure the lengths of the sharks in the aerial images, classifying them as juveniles or adults.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2018
  • This data was processed in photogrammetry software Metashape and exported as a scaled 3D mesh.
    Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • His team created the tour by stitching together thousands of photos in a 3-D video game engine—a process known as photogrammetry.
    Emma Schkloven, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The authors concluded that 3D photogrammetry should be used in other cave explorations in order to fully map the walls, ceilings, and floors.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • To create that mise en scène, Pene tapped a few different groups who specialize in photogrammetry to send drones over the Icelandic landscape that could scan and photograph the terrain.
    Margaret Rhodes, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2015
  • This scanner used photogrammetry to create a 3-D model.
    Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2020
  • And the settings look more realistic, too, thanks to the use of thousands of real photos of buildings, tanks and objects stitched together in 3-D software in a process called photogrammetry.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2019
  • But with photogrammetry, the photography captures the details for you.
    Mike Hume, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The photogrammetry process involves taking thousands of photos to create a 3D model of something.
    CNN, 4 May 2022
  • Etched with the outline of a human figure carrying a spear, the ancient carving was faint, leading experts to use high-tech methods like 3-D imaging and photogrammetry to recreate it.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The work is complex and beholden to rapid shifts in technological arcana like photogrammetry and real-time compositing, but the fruits of its labor can hide in plain sight.
    Vulture, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Rosalie Yu’s work in the show is more akin to traditional photography, evoking a method called photogrammetry.
    Kt Hawbaker, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
  • Among the team that converted the images, using a technique known as photogrammetry, was the visual effects company, Pixomondo.
    Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2018
  • This is scalable, as opposed to running every consumer through a photogrammetry booth, and probably good enough to build a realistic 3-D avatar.
    Victor Erukhimov, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • To add realism to its virtual stage, Forza Motorsport used photogrammetry and 3D material scans to render grass, rocks, weeds, and clouds into the game.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 13 June 2022
  • In a catalog essay, the show’s curator, Beatrice Galilee, explains that the works were digitized with photogrammetry software and laser scanners.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
  • But photogrammetry requires unbroken light, which can be rare in the Philae complex, so on a subsequent trip, Hedley brought a brand-new piece of technology: a small, powerful laser scanner, about the size of a soda can.
    Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Three-dimensional images of the objects and the statues have been developed using photogrammetry, a process based on taking thousands of photographs.
    Jon Hurdle, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Yet such fragile forms quickly break down once uncovered, so the team recorded each print with a series of photographs to construct a three-dimensional model, a technique known as 3D photogrammetry.
    Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Valve has uploaded quite a few of these in the past, including explorations of real-life locations that have been captured using extensive photogrammetry.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Experts are exploring the possibility of using a non-invasive method like photogrammetry to create a 3D model of the fossil.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Now, 43 years after its initial discovery, Brazilian scientists have used a process known as photogrammetry to digitally recreate what this ancient man might have looked like.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
  • At its most basic, photogrammetry creates 3D renderings from 2D images and uses feature matching to capture an artifact, burial site, or (in this case) a skull from every angle.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023

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