Direct georeferencing of ultrahigh-resolution UAV imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2738-2745

  Turner, Darren ^a   Lucieer, Arko ^a   Wallace, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK MECHANICS; STATISTICS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WEB SERVICES;

CAMERA FOCAL LENGTH; CAMERA POSITIONS; DIRECT GEOREFERENCING; GROUND CONTROL POINTS; POSITIONING SYSTEM; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRANSLATION EQUATIONS; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTENNA; ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGERY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84896315948     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2265295     Document Type: Article

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