Testing accuracy and repeatability of UAV blocks oriented with gnss-supported aerial triangulation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Benassi, Francesco ^a   Dall'Asta, Elisa ^a   Diotri, Fabrizio ^b   Forlani, Gianfranco ^a   Cella, Umberto Morra di ^b   Roncella, Riccardo ^a   Santise, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b Regional Agency for Environmental Protection Valle d'Aosta (ARPA)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Checkpoints; GNSS; Ground control points; Integrated Sensor Orientation; Repeatability; RTK; UAV

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DATA HANDLING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; ROCK MECHANICS; TRIANGULATION;

ACCURACY; CHECKPOINTS; GNSS; GROUND CONTROL POINTS; INTEGRATED SENSOR ORIENTATIONS; REPEATABILITY;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85013628427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9020172     Document Type: Article

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