Entering the exterior orientation manually

The Exterior orientation table displays all the imported exterior orientation in the project. You can edit the parameters individually or delete all the imported exterior orientation parameters in the project.

In the text box beside the Earth Model button, type the projection string for the Exterior Orientation Table (for example, UTM 17 T D000) or click Set Table Projection based on Output Projection if you want the table's projection to be the same as the output projection. If you do not know the projection string:
1. In the list to the left of the Earth Model button, click a projection type.
  When you select UTM, SPCS (State Plane Coordinate System), or Other, additional windows may appear in which you select the parameters to define the projection. You can also click More to open the window relevant to your selection. Select the parameters you want, and then click Accept.
2. Click Earth Model.
3. Click either the Datum or the Ellipsoids tab.
4. Click the datum or ellipsoid you want, and then click Accept.
For Table Angle Unit, click the unit that you want displayed in the Exterior Orientation Table:
- Degree if the file expresses the angles in degrees. If a circle is divided along its radius into 360 equal parts, a degree is the angle between two adjacent radii measured at the center of the circle.
- Radian if the file expresses the angles in radians. A radian is a unit used to measure angles where 2 pi radians equals the 360 degrees in a circle. Therefore, one radian equals approximately 57.29577951 degrees.
- Grads if the file expresses the angles in grads. A grad is a unit used to measure angles where 400 grads equals the 360 degrees in a circle. Therefore, a 90-degree right angle equals 100 grads.
- DMS if the file expresses the angles in Degrees Minutes Seconds. This angle unit is only available on the Import Exterior Orientation Data from Text File window. DMS is a unit used to measure angles where a degree is divided into equal parts. A circle contains 360 degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 sections called minutes. Each minute is also divided into 60 sections, which are called seconds. Therefore, each angle is described by a number of degrees, minutes, and seconds.
For each image in Exterior Orientation Table, click the cell under the X, Y, Z, Omega, Phi, and Kappa columns and type the exterior orientation values. Move the scroll bar beneath the table to display all the columns.
Click an image in the Exterior Orientation Table and type the estimated error values in the eX, eY, eZ, eOmega, ePhi, and eKappa boxes. Click Apply Accuracy to apply the estimated error to the selected image. If several images have the same estimated error, you can use SHIFT+click or CTRL+click or click Select All to select the images before typing the estimated error values.
If you need to rotate the Kappa value, select the images in the Exterior Orientation Table or select Select All to rotate all the images. In Rotate kappa, click a rotation button to rotate the images as required.
Under Flight line information, enter the the break angle of the flight line, in degrees, in the Flight line break angle (degrees) box.
OrthoEngine will recognize the value as the delta kappa in which a new flight line has begun. For example, if the kappa changes in angle by more than 20 degrees between scenes, entering a value of 20 means that a new flight line will be created. You can see the created flight lines in the Flightline ID column of the Exterior orientation table.
Repeat the steps until all the images are set.
To remove the exterior orientation values from the project, click Delete All. This will not remove the images from the project, just the exterior orientation values.
Click OK.