ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
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Articles | Volume II-5
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-5-297-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-5-297-2014
28 May 2014
 | 28 May 2014

Landslide monitoring by fixed-base terrestrial stereo-photogrammetry

R. Roncella, G. Forlani, M. Fornari, and F. Diotri

Keywords: Hazard, Landslides, Terrestrial, Photogrammetry, Monitoring, Automation, Algorithms

Abstract. Photogrammetry has been used since long to periodically control the evolution of landslides; however, true monitoring is reserved to robotic total stations and ground based InSAR systems, capable of high frequency, high accurate 24h/day response. This paper presents the first results of a fixed terrestrial stereo photogrammetric system developed to monitor shape changes of the scene. The system is made of two reflex cameras, each contained in a sealed box with a control computer that periodically acquires an image and send it to a host computer; once an image pair is received from the two cameras, the DSM of the scene is generated by image correlation and made available for archiving or analysis. The system has been installed and is being tested on the Mont de la Saxe landslide, where several monitoring system are active. Some instability of the camera attitude has been noticed and is corrected with an automated procedure. First comparisons with InSAR data show a good agreement.