Photogrammetry packages for archeos-next

[Luca Bezzi]

Hi,
sorry Fabrizio, I forgot to answer to your question about 
"Rectification" in Photogrammetry packages. We can simply dismiss that 
software. It was just a single module of a more complex suite (for 3D 
aerial photogrammetry) called e-foto. Since we can consider e-foto 
replaced by MicMac, we did not package it for Theodoric (it was in 
Caesar). I just packaged the "rectification module" porting it from the 
old QT to the new one (don't remember which version), because it was 
till useful in a workflow, but with the latest development of QGIS (and 
of the workflow we use for photomapping), we do not need the 
rectification module any more.

PS
e-foto was "pure photogrammetry" while MicMac uses heavily also SfM and 
MVS, but for aerial archeology the results would be the same (just 
MicMac is faster and better). The only module that is still interesting 
in e-foto is the "stereoplotter" since we have nothing similar (as far 
as I know) in FLOSS applications. But this is not mandatory, the only 
interestng aspect would be to draw vector elements directly with 
stereoglasses in all the 3 dimensions (like the old module of the closed 
software Erdas, or in a way compatible with stereo, the other open 
source photogrammetric software we dismissed), but it would be tricky 
and too slow, and other software could do something similar in other 
ways (Insight3D? but we dismissed this software in Caesar...). I do not 
think this is mandatory right now, but we can discuss about it.