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http://dx.doi.org/10.7848/ksgpc.2021.39.6.541

Improving Precision of the Exterior Orientation and the Pixel Position of a Multispectral Camera onboard a Drone through the Simultaneous Utilization of a High Resolution Camera  

Baek, Seungil (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University)
Byun, Minsu (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University)
Kim, Wonkook (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography / v.39, no.6, 2021 , pp. 541-548 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, multispectral cameras are being actively utilized in various application fields such as agriculture, forest management, coastal environment monitoring, and so on, particularly onboard UAV's. Resultant multispectral images are typically georeferenced primarily based on the onboard GPS (Global Positioning System) and IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit)or accurate positional information of the pixels, or could be integrated with ground control points that are directly measured on the ground. However, due to the high cost of establishing GCP's prior to the georeferencing or for inaccessible areas, it is often required to derive the positions without such reference information. This study aims to provide a means to improve the georeferencing performance of a multispectral camera images without involving such ground reference points, but instead with the simultaneously onboard high resolution RGB camera. The exterior orientation parameters of the drone camera are first estimated through the bundle adjustment, and compared with the reference values derived with the GCP's. The results showed that the incorporation of the images from a high resolution RGB camera greatly improved both the exterior orientation estimation and the georeferencing of the multispectral camera. Additionally, an evaluation performed on the direction estimation from a ground point to the sensor showed that inclusion of RGB images can reduce the angle errors more by one order.
Keywords
Multispectal Camera; Bundle Adjustment; Exterior Orientation; Georeferencing;
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