Stable imaging and accuracy issues of low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry systems

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Yang, Ying ^a   Lin, Zongjian ^a,b   Liu, Fengzhu ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

Author keywords

Ground sample distance (GSD) distribution; Low altitude aerial photogrammetry; Stabilization platform; Stable imaging; UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles)

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; FIXED PLATFORMS; FIXED WINGS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; STABILIZATION; STATISTICAL TESTS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; TRIANGULATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; AERIAL TRIANGULATION; GROUND RESOLUTION; GROUND SAMPLE DISTANCES; IMAGE DEFORMATION; IMAGE ORIENTATION; MECHANICAL PLATFORM; UAV (UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES);

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84971619911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8040316     Document Type: Article

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