A panoramic photo or image is one that shows a continuous scene that has been obtained or some kind of special camera or through partial melting of different shots.
The panoramic image can be of two types: spherical and partial. The spherical or circular (or immersive full-spherical) covers 360 degrees of vision and should be viewed with special software so that we can interact with the image as if we were really at the point of view of the camera and tours upon ourselves to see elsewhere. The partials are conventional digital images, as its name suggests, show a wide scene but not necessarily complete.
The procedure for obtaining panoramic images from many others is known as partial stitching, and is actually quite simple: photograph a certain overlapping parts of the objective order, downloaded or digitized pictures on the computer and apply a program merging the images to get one. It seems to be no limits to the size the final image .
Its usefulness in Archaeology is beyond doubt.
The first contact I had with this type of program was one of the utilities that come with digital cameras, namely Canon Photostich (I guess it must have equivalent programs in other brands). Using PhotoStich merge images is very simple and the results can be really good, especially if you use a Canon and respect certain rules of logic (areas of overlap, horizontal, etc.).
However, if we really control the fusion process, with all kinds of cameras and above using free software, the solution is the Panorama tools. This is a set of utilities that cover all the possibilities for merging, creation and viewing of panoramas, and even other affordable techniques from the perspective of image processing such as correction of lens distortion, perspective , etc. On their website there is plenty of documentation, tutorials and software for all platforms and different user levels.
of all related software certainly worth noting Hugin program, a GUI (graphical user interface ) open source tools working on Panorama and facilitates its use, which is very much appreciated. Start with him.
