Title:	THE E-FOTO PROJECT: CONCEPTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENT FOR E-LEARNING IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY
Author(s):	Jorge L. N. E S. Brito , Luiz C. T. Coelho Filho , Francisco J. C. Da Silveira , Guilherme L. A. Mota , Orlando Bernardo Filho , João A. Ribeiro , Marcelo T. Silveira , Rodrigo J. M. Da Fonseca
ISBN:	972-8924-19-4
Editors:	Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Inmaculada J. Martínez
Year:	2006
Edition:	V II, 2
Keywords:	Free Software; e-learning; Digital Photogrammetry; Digital Photogrammetric Station; Collaborative Development.
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	24
Last Page:	28
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The worldwide web community has been experiencing the benefits of the development of e-learning tools for many areas of knowledge. However, Digital Photogrammetry, that aims at reconstituting and modeling the 3D attributes of real world objects underlain on 2D digital images, is a field that remains practically unexploited. One exception is the E-FOTO project which aims at developing a Digital Photogrammetric Station (DPS) for educational purposes. A DPS can be understood as a dedicated system able to perform digital photogrametry tasks. This project is based upon the self-learning approach and on the principles of the Free-Software community. In the E-FOTO’s web page, several modules which compose the DPS, the respective sources, manuals, the e-book about digital photogrammetry and sample data are available and together compose the project’s e-learning environment. The open source architecture, under the license GNU/GPL, brings several educational advantages, among which access to the algorithms implementation and the opportunity inclusion of user-made solutions. Besides, the community can also actively contribute for the project by sharing through the E-FOTO's web environment both algorithms and new modules. The open architecture adoption of is one of the main innovative aspects of the E-FOTO project pedagogy, as well, bringing the only educational environment available on the web for teaching, self-learning and cooperative development of Digital Photogrammetry techniques with an educative DPS. This paper presents the main achievements and repercussions of the E-FOTO project.
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