INTEGRATION OF THE WILD-AVIOLYT BC2 ANALYTICAL PLOTTER INTO A CARIS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION-SYSTEM

The Computer Aided Resource Information System (CARIS), a vector-based Geographic Information System (GIS), has been extended with raster da ta-handling capabilities. Since early 1991, research and development w ork has been underway in the Laboratory of Photogrammetruy at the Depa rtment of Forestry of the University of Moncton at Edmundston, toward an integration of the WILD-AVIOLYT BC2 analytical stereoplotter with C ARIS. In order to convert the files from AVIOLYT BC2 format into CARIS format, a communication link was conceived between the two systems. F inally, all the files created in AVIOLYT BC2, such as control points, mass points, and grid points, together with Countour Interpolation Pro gram (CIP) files, are converted and transferred to the CARIS system, a nd subsequently used to rectify the aerial photographs that have been digitized with scanning equipment.