Large-Area Photo-Mosaicking tool (LAPM tool)

This paper presents a new tool for large-area photo-mosaicking (LAPM tool). This tool was developed specifically for the purpose of underwater mosaicking, and it is aimed at providing end-user scientists with an easy and robust way to construct large photo-mosaics from any set of images. It is notably capable of constructing mosaics with an unlimited number of images on any modern computer (minimum 1.30 GHz, 2 GB RAM). The mosaicking process can rely on both feature matching and navigation data. This is complemented by an intuitive graphical user interface, which gives the user the ability to select feature matches between any pair of overlapping images. Finally, mosaic files are given geographic attributes that permit direct import into ArcGIS. So far, the LAPM tool has been successfully used to construct geo-referenced photo-mosaics with photo and video material from several scientific cruises. The largest photo-mosaic contained more than 5000 images for a total area of about 105,000 m**2. This is the first article to present and to provide a finished and functional program to construct large geo-referenced photo-mosaics of the seafloor using feature detection and matching techniques. It also presents concrete examples of photo-mosaics produced with the LAPM tool.

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Marcon, Yann, Sahling, Heiko, Bohrmann, Gerhard (2013). Dataset: Large-Area Photo-Mosaicking tool (LAPM tool). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.808960

DOI retrieved: 2013

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Imported on November 30, 2024
Last update November 30, 2024
License CC-BY-3.0
Source https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.808960
Author Marcon, Yann
Given Name Yann
Family Name Marcon
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Sahling, Heiko
Bohrmann, Gerhard
Source Creation 2013
Publication Year 2013
Resource Type text/tab-separated-values - filename: Marcon_2013
Subject Areas
Name: Atmosphere

Name: Lithosphere

Related Identifiers
Title: LAPM: a tool for underwater large-area photo-mosaicking
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-2-189-2013
Type: DOI
Relation: IsSupplementTo
Year: 2013
Source: Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems
Authors: Marcon Yann , Sahling Heiko , Bohrmann Gerhard .

Title: LAPM tool - User Manual
Identifier: hdl:10013/epic.41216.d001
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2013
Authors: Marcon Yann .