Micro-Remote Sensing Inspection reports will be integrated with the design of build structures. When this happens, the inspection records will become part of the planning database. Sewer inspection using CCTV is a very good use of a low cost technology. In ten to twenty years, still frame technology may supplant video technology for inspection. With GPS base stations and miniature fiber optic based internal navigation systems in the cameras, each photo can be referenced by the lens setting, time and date, direction, and camera location.
All photos can be part of stereo photo pairs.
From these photos, surface maps of the photographed objects can be generated, either of the inside of sewers or of the exterior of buildings or earthworks. Still cameras will be capable of creating panoramas automatically. Then, by moving a few feet, a second, stereo set of panorama still frames can be taken. These surface maps can then be compared to the planned structure exteriors, structure interiors, excavations, and fills using GIS systems linked to geo-referenced CAD designs. Differences can be shown as colored solids in the 3D displays.