Low-cost Stereoscopic Solution for Operations in the Prospective Science Space Missions

The stereo matching is the key stage in determine an object's metrical properties on a stereopair which is taken with the help of stereoscopic technical vision systems. One way to find the corresponding points on the digital images lies in carrying the visual stereoscopic measurements by means of the specific software and hardware systems. The large majority of such solutions in the market are focused on the professional users with the experience in the stereophotogrammetric measurements. The outstanding feature of those software systems is the usage of the expensive hardware (professional graphic cards and monitors) with the aim of providing the capability of carrying the visual stereoscopic measurements. These requirements are not always acceptable (first of all due to their high price and high barrier of entry for an user) in the scientific space research, especially in the performance of the tasks that are not connected with processing of the remote sensing data. At the same time recently in the market appeared the value for money hardware solutions for stereo visualization based on the page-flip method of views separation. The results of developing the software for carrying the visual stereoscopic measurements based on one of the most popular solutions in game industry NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit for the user segment graphic cards (graphic processor GeForce) are presented in the paper.