An unmanned aerial vehicle-based imaging system for 3D measurement of unpaved road surface distresses

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-129

  Zhang, Chunsun ^a   Elaksher, Ahmed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D MEASUREMENT; 3D INFORMATION; 3D MODELS; 3D ROAD SURFACE MODEL; ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AERIAL IMAGERY; DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MODEL HELICOPTERS; ORTHOIMAGES; PAVEMENT CONDITION; ROAD CONDITION; ROAD NETWORK; ROAD SURFACE DISTRESS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE DISTRESS; TEST SITE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SURFACE MODELS; TIMELY IDENTIFICATION; TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH; UNPAVED ROADS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMAGNETISM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; PAVEMENTS; RATING; RURAL AREAS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL SURVEY; AIRBORNE SENSING; DIGITAL IMAGE; GPS; NAVIGATION AID; PAVEMENT; RESEARCH WORK; RURAL AREA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 84855533888     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2011.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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