SAMA-VTOL: A new unmanned aircraft system for remotely sensed data collection

Mohammad R. R. Bayanlou; Mehdi Khoshboresh-Masouleh

doi:10.1117/12.2580533

8 November 2020 SAMA-VTOL: A new unmanned aircraft system for remotely sensed data collection

Mohammad R. R. Bayanlou, Mehdi Khoshboresh-Masouleh

Proceedings Volume 11525, SPIE Future Sensing Technologies; 115250V (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2580533
Event: SPIE Future Sensing Technologies, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

In recent years, unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) are frequently used in many different applications of photogrammetry such as building damage monitoring, archaeological mapping and vegetation monitoring. In this paper, a new vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing UAS is proposed to robust photogrammetry missions, called SAMA-VTOL. In this study, the capability of SAMA-VTOL is investigated for generating orthophoto. The major stages are including designing, building and experimental scenario. First, a brief description of design and build is introduced. Next, an experiment was done to generate accurate orthophoto with minimum ground control points requirements. The processing step, which includes automatic aerial triangulation with camera calibration and model generation. In this regard, the Pix4Dmapper software was used to orientate the images, produce point clouds, creating digital surface model and generating orthophoto mosaic. Experimental results based on the test area covering 26.3 hectares indicate that our SAMA-VTOL performs well in the orthophoto mosaic task.

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Mohammad R. R. Bayanlou and Mehdi Khoshboresh-Masouleh "SAMA-VTOL: A new unmanned aircraft system for remotely sensed data collection", Proc. SPIE 11525, SPIE Future Sensing Technologies, 115250V (8 November 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2580533

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