Brief History of Photogrammetry

1889: The first German manual of photogrammetry was published by C. Koppe.
1896: Eduard Gaston and Daniel Deville present the first stereoscopical instrument for vectorized mapping.
1897/98: Theodor Scheimpflug invents the double projection
. 1901: Pulfrich creates the first “Stereokomparator” and revolutionates the mapping from stereopairs.
1889: The first German manual of photogrammetry was published by C. Koppe.
1896: Eduard Gaston and Daniel Deville present the first stereoscopical instrument for vectorized mapping.
1897/98: Theodor Scheimpflug invents the double projection
. 1901: Pulfrich creates the first “Stereokomparator” and revolutionates the mapping from stereopairs.
1903: Theodor Scheimpflug invents the „Perspektograph“, an instrument for optical rectification.
1910: The ISP (International Society for Photogrammetry), now ISPRS, was founded by E. Dolezal in Austria.
1911: The Austrian Th. Scheimpflug finds a way to create rectified photographs. He is considered as the initiator of aerial photogrammetry, since he was the first succeeding to apply the photogrammetrical principles to aerial photographs.
1913: The first congress of the ISP was held in Vienna. until 1945: development and improvement of measuring metric cameras and analogue plotters.
1964: First architectural tests with the new stereometric camera-system, which had been invented by Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen and Hans Foramitti, Vienna.
1964: Charte de Venise.
1968: First international Symposium for photogrammetrical applications to historical monuments was held in Paris - Saint Mandé.
1970: Constitution of CIPA (Comité International de la Photogrammétrie Architecturale) as one of the international specialized committees of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) in cooperation with ISPRS. The two main activists were Maurice Carbonnell, France, and Hans Foramitti, Austria.
1970ies: The analytical plotters, which were first used by U. Helava in 1957, revolutionate photogrammetry. They allow to apply more complex methods: aerotriangulation, bundle-adjustment, the use of amateur cameras etc.
1980ies: Due to improvements in computer hardware and software, digital photogrammetry is gaining more and more importance.
1996: 83 years after its first conference, the ISPRS comes back to Vienna, the town, where it was founded.