Documenting Historic Buildings by creating true to scale image plans with Phase One 50MP camera, a UAV and metigo®

Historic architecture is being digitized and modeled for the purpose of conservation, preservation, and protection of the structures and their cultural heritage. In the past, photogrammetrical documentations were possible only with analog cameras of 5’x7’ or 4’x5’ frame size and accomplished by using a lift that was positioned and driven around the object and carried the photographer around.

Today, with the development of smaller and lighter aerial platforms (UAVs and cameras), surveying complex structures in populated environments is becoming easier, faster, affordable, and more efficient, and the images are utilized for inspection, monitoring, 2D/3D image rectification, and dense point cloud creation.

CopterSystems GmbH is developing intelligent aerial platforms and manufacturing tailor-made UAV solutions for diverse applications.

Fokus GmbH Leipzig is an engineering company that provides special services in the fields of architecture photogrammetry and focuses on complex surveying supporting the documentation of monuments, as well as photogrammetrical evaluation of historic photographs for dimensional reconstruction of historic objects.

CopterSystems and Fokus GmbH Leipzig joined forces and executed a complex aerial survey for documenting the historic neo-Gothic church St. Mauritius in Frankfurt /Main. The church that was built in 1901 is located in a populated area and attracts many visitors. The challenge was not only documenting the structure but also allowing the traffic of people around it uninterrupted.