Hi Guys, After a short holiday, I’m back in Palermo for a busy semester of work! For my first post after summer I wanted to share my experiences from the CIPA Photogrammetry Summer School in the beautiful city of Zadar, Croatia . I was lucky enough to be a part of the school as my supervisors advised me to go as the school would be featuring the very same base techniques I will be using for my project. Whilst the summer school was focused on cultural heritage, the techniques, software and hardware I was exposed to, are the same as I will use for the pavement distresses. This is important as understanding those are key to being able to transpose them to my project to make it a success. Ok, enough pretense! Let's get to what the summer school was about! As I said, it was on Photogrammetry but What exactly is this photogrammetry concept I keep mentioning to you? To put it simply, it's about taking measurements from images. In our world today we take images all the tim
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