I am certain that several other contributors to this memorial volume have expounded on the many attributes,both professional and personal,of Professor Fritz Ackermann.It is unquestionable that he was a giant in our fi...I am certain that several other contributors to this memorial volume have expounded on the many attributes,both professional and personal,of Professor Fritz Ackermann.It is unquestionable that he was a giant in our field,on whose shoulders current and future practitioners shall stand in order to keep the wheels of progress and advancement moving forward.展开更多
We sketch Friedrich Ackermann’s research program following the concept of Imre Lakatos,with some historical key developments in the theory and application of aerotriangulation and image matching.The research program,...We sketch Friedrich Ackermann’s research program following the concept of Imre Lakatos,with some historical key developments in the theory and application of aerotriangulation and image matching.The research program,with its core being statistical estimation theory,has decisively influenced photogrammetry since the 60s,is still fully alive,and a challenge for today’s methods of image interpretation.We describe(1)Lakatos’concept of a scientific research program,with its negative and positive heuristics and(2)Ackermann’s research program,clearly made explicit in his PhD,with its mathematical model,the ability to predict theoretical precision and reliability,the potential of analyzing rigorous and approximate method,and the role of testing.The development of aerotriangulation,later augmented by image matching techniques,is closely connected to Ackermann’s successful attempts to integrate basic research and practical applications.展开更多
文摘I am certain that several other contributors to this memorial volume have expounded on the many attributes,both professional and personal,of Professor Fritz Ackermann.It is unquestionable that he was a giant in our field,on whose shoulders current and future practitioners shall stand in order to keep the wheels of progress and advancement moving forward.
文摘We sketch Friedrich Ackermann’s research program following the concept of Imre Lakatos,with some historical key developments in the theory and application of aerotriangulation and image matching.The research program,with its core being statistical estimation theory,has decisively influenced photogrammetry since the 60s,is still fully alive,and a challenge for today’s methods of image interpretation.We describe(1)Lakatos’concept of a scientific research program,with its negative and positive heuristics and(2)Ackermann’s research program,clearly made explicit in his PhD,with its mathematical model,the ability to predict theoretical precision and reliability,the potential of analyzing rigorous and approximate method,and the role of testing.The development of aerotriangulation,later augmented by image matching techniques,is closely connected to Ackermann’s successful attempts to integrate basic research and practical applications.
