Within the last years extensive tests were done to investigate the accuracy performance of integrated GPS/inertial systems for direct georeferencing in airborne photogrammetric environments. Based on commercially available high performance GPS/inertial systems direct georeferencing was shown to be a serious alternative to standard indirect image orientation using classical or GPS-supported aeri...

The availability of 3D surface data is valuable for several industrial, public, and military applications. Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) is an active sensor system capable of collecting 3D information from an object surface using directly geo-referenced laser pulses. Accurate and dense LiDAR data can be utilized for photogrammetric data geo-referencing and segmentation of 3D buildings. Li...

This article presents the results of an assessment of radiometric correction methods of images taken by the large-format aerial, photogrammetric, multispectral pushbroom camera Leica Geosystems ADS40. The investigation was carried out in the context of the multi-site EuroSDR project “Radiometric aspects of digital photogrammetric images”. Images were collected at the forestry research test site...

Many applications can be solved by using the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology such as farming, surveillance, monitoring, fire disaster, flood monitoring and aerial terrain mapping. This study was carried out to investigate the use of light weight rotary-wing UAV for mapping simulation model. The accuracy of photogrammetric product will be assessed as one of the objectives of this study....