Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing became one of the most important types of
science for Engineers in many ways and methods to apply in various fields,
especially in civil engineering applications.
In this report, I shall pay attention to these applications and discuss one of them in
details (Suez Canal area development Project)
Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing applications in Engineering
1. Prepared By: Amira Abdallah Youssef
Level 3 – Civil Eng. Department – faculty of Engineering
Supervision: Dr. Mona Fouad Kaisar
GIS , Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Professor,
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science for Community service
And Environmental development
2017
Applications of Photogrammetry &
Remote Sensing in Engineering
2. Content of Report
1. Introduction.
2. Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Applications in
Engineering with illustrating photographs.
3. An application of Photogrammetry in details (Government
national massive projects for development of Lands)
4. An Example of Government Urban Planning and Development
(Suez canal area Development Project)
للتنمي العمالقة القومية المشاريعة-السويس قناة محور تنمية مشروع
5. References
3. 1.Introduction
Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing became one of the most important types of
science for Engineers in many ways and methods to apply in various fields,
especially in civil engineering applications.
In this report, I shall pay attention to these applications and discuss one of them in
details (Suez Canal area development Project) which is of a great importance for
our beloved home, Egypt.
2.Applications of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing in
Engineering
2.1 Engineering Projects Planning
- Choosing road positions and determining best
tracks of tunnels and their depths.
- Choosing sites of new urban development
(which will be discussed in details)
- Pipelines routing.
- Highways designs.
- Dams and water structures positions
planning.
2.2 Planning Traffic & transportation
Engineering
- Management of traffic system.
- Detecting traffic problems causes for solving
them accurately.
- Underground and railway tracks Positioning.
4. 2.3 Engineering material resources
- Finding Resources of Building
materials (Limestone – Marble –
Quartz sand and gravel).
- Petroleum and Natural gas
exploration.
2.4 Prediction of future hazards
- Studying stability & rocks slopes.
- Determining the motion of sand and its direction.
- Prediction of gravity flooding over cites.
2.5 Architectural applications
- The recording of historic buildings and
monuments to produce elevation
drawings and sections normally at scales
of 1:20, 1:50 and 1:100.
- Urban Planning.
urban planning
Recording of historic buildings
5. 2.6 Mechanical Engineering Applications
- Ship building.
- Aircraft manufacture.
- Chemical plant surveys.
- Tunnel profiling.
2.7 Agricultural Engineering
- Collecting data about soil nature and resources of water.
- Defining areas that can be used for agricultural use.
2.8 Water supply projects & Shoreline Protection
- Detecting water resources for water supply projects.
- Water quality monitoring.
- Coastal management & protection.
- Shoreline mapping & erosion analysis.
Coastal management
6. Now as mentioned before, One of the most important applications of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing is Urban planning over wide areas which governments use to develop
manage the development of lands , A great example of this is Suez Canal area development
project that will be discussed in details .
3. An application of Photogrammetry (Government national massive
projects for development of Lands)
- Photogrammetry and remote sensing are two sources of inputs for GIS or
Geographic Information System, which is a very useful tool in Urban Planning
and Land Use Planning LUP projects.
- Governments use land-use planning to manage the development of land.
The role that photogrammetry and remote sensing play in these massive projects appears
as the first step of Action plans. Photogrammetry provide Engineers with Essential aerial
photographs to produce
maps that are used later in
urban planning .
Aerial Photographs
& satallite
photographs
Maps and
sketching for area
coverage
Planning drawinngs
for whole area
8. 4. An Example of Government Urban Planning and Development (Suez
canal area Development Project)
Aim of Project and Study area
- The Suez Canal Corridor Area Project (Arabic: السويس قناة محور تطوير وع رمش) is a mega
project in Egypt that was launched on 5 August 2014 by President Abdel Fattah el-
Sisi. The project's aim is to increase the role of the Suez Canal region in
international trading and to develop the three canal cities: Suez, Ismailia, and Port
Said.
- The project involves:
1- Building a new city (new Ismailia city), an industrial zone, fish farms,
completing the technology valley.
2- Building seven new tunnels between Sinai and Ismailia and Port Said.
3- Improving five existing ports
4- Digging a new canal parallel to the Suez Canal.
- The new canal will increase the canal capacity by allowing ships to sail into both
directions at the same time for a greater proportion of the canal. The project will
transfer the canal cities into an important trading center globally. It will also build
new centers on the Suez Canal for logistic and ship services.
1. New cities
