"Smart" Camera for Precise Mapping and Targeting

A "smart" video camera, called the "GI-Eye," generates digital image data that are automatically tagged with georegistration meta-data to indicate the precise position and attitude of the camera when the image was taken. This automatic georegistration streamlines the processing of the digital image data; in particular, it reduces the time needed to correlate common features in different images and enables the derivation, from the image data, of the precise three-dimensional coordinates of features in images.