Reproducibility of UAV-based earth topography reconstructions based on Structure-from-Motion algorithms

Geomorphology

Volumn 260, Issue , 2016, Pages 4-15

  Clapuyt, Francois ^a   Vanacker, Veerle ^a   Van Oost, Kristof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3D point cloud; Digital surface model; Precision; Structure from Motion; Topography; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; LANDFORM; MODELING; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 84930371944     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.05.011     Document Type: Article

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