DYNAMIC MONITORING WITH VIDEO SYSTEMS CHANG-KYUNG LEE August 1996 TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 183 DYNAMIC MONITORING WITH VIDEO SYSTEMS Chang-Kyung Lee Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering University of New Brunswick P.O. Box 4400 Fredericton, N.B. Canada E3B 5A3 August 1996 © Chang-Kyung Lee, 1996 PREFACE In order to make our extensive series of technical reports more readily available, we have scanned the old master copies and produced electronic versions in Portable Document Format. The quality of the images varies depending on the quality of the originals. The images have not been converted to searchable text. PREFACE This unedited technical report summarizes the research that was conducted during the author's stay as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick. The research was supervised by Dr. Wolfgang Faig, and funding was provided by the Korean Science and Engineering Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. As with any copyrighted material, permission to reprint or quote extensively from this report must be received from the author. The citation to this work should appear as follows: Lee, Chang-Kyung (1996). Dynamic Monitoring with Video Systems. Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Technical Report No. 183, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 98 pp. Dr. Lee can be contacted at Department of Ocean Engineering Kusan National University Miryong, Kunsan, Chonbuk, 573-360 South Korea e-mail:
[email protected] iii ABSTRACT While close range photogrammetry has been widely applied for static deformation analysis, video cameras have many characteristics that make them the sensors of choice for dynamic analysis of rapidly changing situations.