An Aerial Image Registration Tool

Abstract: GeoMemories is a project that aims to digitalize the historical aerial photograph archives of the Aerofototeca Nazionale in Rome. In order to use those photographs in GeoMemories, there is a need to have an application to help with producing better photographs. This study presents different steps of creating this aerial image registration application or what is called GeoImage. GeoImage is a desktop application which is intended to give researchers opportunities to work on aerial historical images easie and more practically. This study describes the reasons for choosing User-Centred Design or UCD as a methodology to help analysing unstructured users’ requirements. Moreover, it presents surveys as a chosen UCD method to help user to focus more on main requirements and they also increase the speed of gathering information from users. The result shows that survey is a key point for success of this project. Furthermore, this research analyses two available applications in the market with similar functionalities, ArcGIS and QGIS from all aspects of the User-Centred Design perspective. The outcome of this analysis helps extensively in the evaluation of the final version of the GeoImage application. Finally, this study can be complemented in the future by adding more functionalities based on the final GeoImage’s goal. Furthermore, all analysed requirements can be gathered in a web-based application for public audience.