The increasing growth of requirements for 3D models accuracy which is secured by progress of interactive spatial analysis methods brings to the foreground the cost optimization in production process of 3D models. Despite the theoretic advances in the field of buildings’ restoration process information support, automatic technologies of 3D urban models for large areas are still inferior to less expensive semiautomatic methods. This paper demonstrates the main techniques of advancing the methodology of three-dimensional analysis based on using remote sensing data at different production stages. The capabilities of pictometry, automatic aerial triangulation, stereophotogrammetric analysis are described as well as directions of theoretical research for the development of integrated software tools which are required to optimize data processing.
Keywords: three-dimensional model, urban cartographic modeling, stereophotogrammetric analysis, LIDAR