Advantage of digital close range photogrammetry in drawing of muqarnas in architecture

In this study, conventional method and digital close range photogrammetry is compared in sample study for measuring and drawing of muqarnas which is common in architecture. One of the most significant advantages of close range photogrammetry in documentation is giving opportunity to measure buildings or part of the buildings especially very high, very low, dangerous, not accessible or very detailed like muqarnas or damaged. It is a big facility to measure required measurement of the parts of the building from the photograph. Its another important thing in documentation that these data can be used in the future again and they can be shared with other users and they are easy to store in computer. © 2009 Asian Network for Scientific Information