The Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab at Kansas State University has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle capability for inexpensively performing aerial surveys. Bundle Adjustment (BA) is used in the extraction of terrain information from these aerial surveys. However, the inexpensive, lightweight inertial navigation system on the UAV does not give good initial estimates of the camera poses for th...

The traditional mapping on digital aerial photos and elevation models has its limits at steep slopes where the surface is only very sparsely sampled even in high resolution data sets. As a consequence, there is too few information available to perform a detailed mapping. In this paper we present a framework for augmenting terrain data with additional photos and show how to utilize this addition...

Recommended Citation Jones, Christine L., "Comparing remote sensing and ground-based methods of quantifying cover type and carbon storage in an urban forest", Master's report, 2011 2 This report, " Comparing remote sensing and ground-based methods of quantifying cover type and carbon storage in an urban forest " , is hereby approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of M...

Monitoring and identification of disasters are crucial for mitigating their effects on the environment and on human population, and can be facilitated by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), equipped with camera sensors which can produce frequent aerial photos of the areas of interest. A modern, promising technique for recognition of events based on aerial photos is deep learning. In this...

To identify critical sediment sources in large catchments, using easily available terrain information at a regionalscale, a methodology was developed to obtain a qualitative assessment necessary for environmental management.Fargas et al method was employed in the research. The study was carried out in one of the sub-basins of Hableh Roodbasin called Dehnamak in the arid and semiarid climate of ...

Large size digital aerial frame cameras like Intergraph DMC and Vexcel UltraCam are becoming standard for photogrammetric application. It is difficult to compare the information contents of such cameras with this of analogue photographic cameras. Also the rules for project planning have to be checked if the old relation between photo scale and map scale is still valid. The photo scale has no lo...

Automatic identification and localization of cartographic objects in aerial and satellite images have gained increasing attention in recent years in digital photogrammetry and remote sensing. Although the automatic extraction of man made objects in essence is still an unresolved issue, the man made objects can be extracted from aerial photos and satellite images. Recently, the high-resolution s...