ORIENTAL – AUTOMATIC GEO-REFERENCING AND ORTHO-RECTIFICATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

This paper presents the newly developed software OrientAL, which aims at providing a fully automated processing chain from aerial photographs to orthophoto maps.It considers the special requirements Seatbelt Attachment of archaeological aerial images, including oblique imagery, single images, poor approximate georeferencing, and historic AEG HKB75NB540 75cm Five Burner Gas-on-glass Hob With Work Burner photographs.As a first step the automatic relative orientation of images from an archaeological image archive is presented.