THE TK-350 WIDE-FORMAT TOPOGRAPHIC CAMERA

This paper discusses the TK-350 wide-format topographic camera. A cali bration method is presented that provides measurement of the projectio ns of the radial and tangential distortions of the camera onto the coo rdinate axes of a photograph with a step of 10 mm over the entire fiel d of the picture with an error of 1 mu m. It is shown that the TK-350 camera makes it possible to obtain photographs that possess good measu rement and imaging properties, suitable for creating large-scale maps. (C) 1998 The Optical Society of America. [S1070-9762(98)01211-1].