Hi Listers

A client of mine has purchased some hard-copy aerial stereo-photos and
wants to scan them for use as a base layer in MapInfo.

These photos are not rectified in any way for digital use, as they are
designed for viewing in stereoscopic pairs.

Obviously, the client is concerned about the distortion at the edges of
the images - he is planning to use 5 photos for the area concerned. Once
registered there is about 150m distortion at each photo edge. Placing
vector layers onto the images is obviously going to be a problem as
registration will be different for each photo image, so they will not
currently display properly in MapInfo.

Is there any software which will rectify the photos? (is this
"ortho-rectifying"?). Or would specific rectified digital images need to
be purchased for mosaicing in MapInfo?

I have only used digital images, and have not tried using stereographic
images for this purpose, so cannot advise.

Any advice you may have for using these images in MapInfo would be most
welcome. I will forward it to my client.

Thanks
Caroline
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Dr Caroline Hilton 
Pelican GeoGraphics Ltd
UK
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.pelicangeographics.co.uk

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