Vertical geomediation
The automation and platformization of photogrammetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12655841 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rowan Wilken (0000-0002-3022-0675, RMIT University, corresponding author), Julian Thomas (0000-0002-2907-4586, RMIT University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2531-2547 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614448221122214 |
| OpenAlex | W4303415517 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 46 |
Photogrammetry is the science of using photographs to make measurements and derive three-dimensional (3D) data about objects or terrain from two-dimensional (2D) imaging. In this article we view photogrammetry through the lens of geomedia studies, arguing two things. First, we suggest the accumulation and concentration of photogrammetric capabilities, technologies and knowledge, from the First World War onwards can be understood as both part of the 20th-century creation of a ‘government machine’, and a crucial element within the longer-run ‘cartographic project’. Through both world wars and the post-war period, aerial photogrammetry emerged as a fundamental capability for government-supported geomedia infrastructure and spatial information capture – what we term an extended geomedia infosphere. Second, we examine the critical dynamics of digitization, automation and platformization. These developments, we argue, have led to a redistribution of photogrammetric capabilities and technologies outside governmental cartography, with implications for platforms and geomedia studies
Automation · Cartography · Computer vision · Digitization · Geography · Government (linguistics · Photogrammetry · Remote sensing · Terrain · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Archaeological Research and Protection · Computer Science · Engineering · Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications · Artificial Intelligence · Geology · Mechanical Engineering
New Media, 1740–1915
The Platform Economy
The Platform Society
Nonhuman Photography
Unmanned aerial systems for photogrammetry and remote sensing
‘Structure-from-Motion’ photogrammetry
What Is Media Archaeology
How We Became Our Data
The Government Machine
Rethinking Media Coverage
Drones, Vertical Mediation, and the Targeted Class
Geomedia
The Impact on Topographic Mapping of Developments in Land and Air Survey
American Cartographic Transformations during the Cold War
Seeing the forest for the trees
Situating the geoweb in political economy
Spatial media/tion
Impersonal subjectivation from platforms to infrastructures
Stereoscopic Phototopographic Mapping
Air as Medium
Automating Vision
The politics of 'platforms
Machine learning in geography-Past, present, and future
The Platformization of the Web
Platform Seeing
Critical Hardware
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |