Panoramic image archives for as-built modelling of complex industrial assets

This paper describes the design of a panoramic digital photogrammetric system dedicated to the production of As-Built documentation for large industrial facilities. Such activities necessitate the acquisition, management and exploitation of very large image archives that attempt to document all the significant features of an industrial structure with sufficient coverage that ad-hoc photogrammetric measurement can be undertaken. In order to maximise the value of such archives mechanisms have been developed to enable their integration with Facility Management (FM) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems and to enable their integration within a corporate client-server architecture.