Generation of Highly Accurate Digital Elevation Models with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Photogrammetric Record

Volumn 31, Issue 154, 2016, Pages 143-165

  Reshetyuk, Yuriy ^a   Mårtensson, Stig Göran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DEM; DSM; photogrammetry; UAV; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FIXED WINGS; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLAT TERRAINS; FLYING HEIGHTS; GROUND SAMPLE DISTANCES; HIGHLY ACCURATE; SOFTWARE SUITE; UNCERTAINTY;

SURVEYING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

GAVLE; GAVLEBORG; SWEDEN;

EID: 84975230409     PISSN: 0031868X     EISSN: 14779730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/phor.12143     Document Type: Article

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