A robust photogrammetric processing method of low-altitude UAV images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2302-2333

  Ai, Mingyao ^a   Hu, Qingwu ^a   Li, Jiayuan ^a   Wang, Ming ^a   Yuan, Hui ^a   Wang, Shaohua ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BAoSIFT; Dense match; Digital orthophoto maps (DOM); Strip auto arrangement; Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE CONTROL; IMAGE MATCHING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PROCESSING; ROCK MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VISUALIZATION;

BAOSIFT; DENSE MATCH; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; GROUND CONTROL POINTS; LARGE ROTATION ANGLES; ORTHOPHOTO MAPS; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; STRIP AUTO-ARRANGEMENT;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84926286960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70302302     Document Type: Article

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