DeChant Consulting Services - DCS Inc iWitness Close Range Photogrammetry: Training Workshops


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DeChant Consulting Services - DCS is pleased to announce the iWitness 3-day photogrammetry workshop. The iWitness workshop instructs customers the theory and operation of the iWitness close-range photogrammetry system. Experts from DCS instruct the iWitness training workshop.

The minimum attendance for the iWitness workshop is six attendees, which may consist of a business group of people, or optionally independent parties requesting the workshop training. The iWitness workshop uses accident reconstruction projects as the focus of training exercises.

Following the iWitness workshop completion, attendees will have the necessary working knowledge for using iWitness with calibrated digital cameras and/or analog cameras, on a wide range of measurement and 3D modeling projects.

The DCS iWitness workshop at your facility:
Upon customer request, the DCS iWitness training workshops, for groups of 6 or more attendees, are available with the workshop held at the customer's facility. Please contact DCS for more information, to receive a training quotation.

The iWitness Workshop Outline

1) General Overview of the iWitness close-range photogrammetry system using film and digital cameras

2) Day & Night Photography requirements

3) Introduction to the iWitness User Interface tools

4) Working with already acquired images (and understanding EXIF use in iWitness)

5) Manual and Automatic Centroid Marking digital images - used with iWitness' fully automatic camera orientation & bundle adjustment (triangulation) processing

6) Model integrity checking (Quality Assurance checks using the "Edit Review Mode" function)

7) Applying project scale, measuring, model rotation "3-2-1", and Z-axis target offsetting - used with combined total station control point data

8) Working with the 3D Points List and the 3D Graphics Viewer

9) The iWitness model exporting options in report and CAD formats

10) iWitness semi automatic and fully automatic Camera Calibration methods – using a digital camera as well as the discussion of film cameras using "Zaraf" fiducial transformation software.

11) The iWitness requirements for proper field work and imaging

12) Accomplishing a field project from ‘Photos to CAD diagram' using iWitness and The Crash Zone

13) iWitness' Project Network 1D, 2D, 3D 'Stitching' (linking multiple projects using the "Transformation to Control" dialog)

14) Using Polylines (free form and facet) - introduced in Version 1.2

15) Review of Photo-realistic Texturing - introduced in Version 1.2

16) Advanced Tools and Concepts within the iWitness program

17) Workshop Q&A wrap up session

Training Prerequisite:

The only prerequisite for the iWitness Basic Training Workshop is, attendees must have an understanding of working with the MS Windows 2000 or XP Operating Systems. Experience with CAD diagramming is also helpful, but is not a requirement for the iWitness - photogrammetry training workshop.

Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction - ACTAR CEU's

The iWitness and the Crash Zone workshops qualify for Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR) - Continuing Education Units (CEU's) - please contact DCS for more information.

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DCS Sales Department
DeChant Consulting Services-DCS Inc
PO Box 3261
Bellevue, WA 98009-3261
Phone: (425) 637-1865
Fax: (425) 454-2855
email at: sales@photomeasure.com