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Integrated Sensor Orientation on Micro Aerial Vehicles

Mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs whose weight does not exceed 5 kg) is gaining importance in applications, such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline inspections, or mapping of large areas with homogeneous surface structure, e.g. forest or agricul ...

EPFL2017

Performance assessment of integrated sensor orientation with a low-cost GNSS receiver

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

Mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs whose weight does not exceed 5 kg) is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline inspections, or mapping of large areas with homogeneous surface structure, e.g. forest or agricult ...

Copernicus GmbH2017

Time synchronization of consumer cameras on Micro Aerial Vehicles

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

This article discusses the problem of time registration between navigation and imaging components on Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). Accurate mapping with MAVs is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline inspections or m ...

Elsevier2017

Bundle adjustment with raw inertial observations

Jan Skaloud, Davide Antonio Cucci, Martin Rehak

t is well known that accurate aerial position and attitude control is beneficial for image orientation in airborne photogrammetry. The aerial control is traditionally obtained by Kalman filtering/smoothing inertial and GNSS observations prior to the bundle ...

2017

Applicability Of New Approaches Of Sensor Orientation To Micro Aerial Vehicles

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

This study highlights the benefits of precise aerial position and attitude control in the context of mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). Accurate mapping with MAVs is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline ins ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2016

Fixed-wing Micro Aerial Vehicle for Accurate Corridor Mapping

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

In this study we present a Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) equipped with precise position and attitude sensors that together with a pre-calibrated camera enables accurate corridor mapping. The design of the platform is based on widely available model components ...

2015

Photogrammetric Mission Planner for RPAS

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak, Florian Gandor

This paper presents a development of an open-source flight planning tool for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) that is dedicated to high-precision photogrammetric mapping. This tool contains planning functions that are usually available in professio ...

2015

Leman-Baikal: Remote sensing of lakes using an ultralight plane

Ulrich Lemmin, Damien Bouffard, Bertrand Merminod, Vincent Maurice Nouchi, Natacha Tofield-Pasche, Martin Rehak, Yosef Akhtman, Dragos Constantin, Galina Shinkareva

The Leman-Baikal project constitutes an international Swiss-Russian collaborative research initiative in the field of physical limnology. The three-year framework involves the development and deployment of a novel multispectral and hyperspectral remote sen ...

2014

Ein Mikroflugzeug zur genauen Kartierung ohne Passpunkte am Boden

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak, Philipp Clausen

Diese Studie soll das Potential von Navigationstechnologien aufzeigen. Diese Tech nologien werden zur Bestimmung der Position und der Ausrichtung von Mikrodroh nensystemen (Micro Aerial Vehicle, MAV) genutzt, deren Gewicht 5kg nicht über schreitet. Dies ...

2014

Mapping with MAV: Experimental Study on the Contribution of Absolute and Relative Aerial Position Control

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

This study highlights the benefit of precise aerial position control in the context of mapping using frame-based imagery taken by small UAVs. We execute several flights with a custom Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) octocopter over a small calibration field equi ...

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences2014