Fourcade Surveying Camera at Geomatic UCT

South Africa had its own specialist in the photogrammetry field in the early 1900’s when the first precise measurement methods using photographs were developed about the same time by two persons, Prof. Fourcade in Cape Town (UCT) and Dr. Pulfrich in Germany. Prof. Fourcade submitted his scripts in 1901, followed by that of Pulfrich in 1902. The machine designed by Dr Pulfrich was the first stereoplotter to interpret 3D images. This plotter resembled the Fourcade design in almost all aspects. Prof Fourcade’s surveying camera and stereoplotter is still on display at the University of Cape Town in the Survey/GIS faculty of science. Spatially documented by GDHA in April 2024.