Photogrammetric Documentation for Muharraq and Manama Urban Design Pilot
Projects
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· Synopsis
The Documentation Project “Photogrammetric Documentation for Muharraq and Manama Urban Design Pilot Projects” was carried out in late June-early July 2006 in service of the "Capacity Building for Enhancement of Urban Governance", a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP
) initiative in collaboration with Ministry of Municipalities and Agricultural Affairs (MoMAA), Bahrain.
Information Provider: Salim Elwazani, José Luis Lerma
Information Beneficiary (Owner): UNDP/MoMAA, represented by Dr. Falah Al-Kubaisy, Advisor of the Research and Studies Section of the Ministry of Municipalities and Agricultural Affairs, Bahrain
Information User: Urban and architectural design consultants: Usam Ghaidan, Victor Allen, and Maan Alzaher
Context
The two-member team of the documentation provider handled field survey, digital processing, and rectified image production associated with the following pilot projects:
a) Urban Design of the City of Muharraq Cultural Heritage Area
b) Urban Design of the City of Manama Cultural Heritage Area
c) Architectural Re-Design of the Qayseriyyah Souq in Muharraq
They used simple, fast and relatively accurate digital photogrammetric techniques. The project involved multiple tasks.
Tasks
- Analyzing the subject urban areas to determine compatible recording techniques and to estimate the pace of documentation operations
- Selecting and testing appropriate recording tools, mainly based on digital photography
- Completing field survey data acquisition and office digital image data processing
- Producing a set of rectified images integrated into mosaics—an integrated adjacent series of images, and a set of images ready to be rectified at some time in future
- Conferring with the documentation beneficiary (MoMAA) and with the documentation user (the three professional design consultants) on steady basis regarding the documentation tool capabilities, documentation operations, and the usability of the documentation outcome (rectified images and mosaics)
- Training a number of the MoMAA junior architects and interns on the use of rectified imagery documentation techniques for building up measurable streetscape scenes
Mosaic Example of a streetscape scene rectifications
Associated with the Pilot Project: Urban Design of the City of Muharraq Cultural Heritage Area.
Input images (reduced for display 21.5x):
Output:
Mosaic built up from images 1 through 6
Using more images, an extended mosaic resulted:
Shaikh Abdulla Bin Isa Avenue streetscape. South Elevation
- Lerma, J.L., Elwazani, S., Digital rectified imagery: a survey method for design and conservation projects. Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2006), pp. 330-340, Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), April 25-27, 2006.
- Elwazani, S., Lerma, J.L., Recording Streetscapes in Documentation for Conservation Illustrated Examples (Eds. R. Eppich, A. Chabbi). The Getty Conservation Institute, 2007.
For further information, please contact:
- Dr. Salim Elwazani, Architecture & Environmental Design Studies Program, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-U.S.A. (
selwaza@bgsu.edu), and Dr. José L. Lerma, Dept. of Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Cº de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia-Spain (jllerma@cgf.upv.es).- Dr. Falah Al-Kubaisy, Advisor, Section of Studies and Research. Ministry of Municipalities and Agricultural Affairs, Bahrain.
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
