Target geolocation in long-range oblique photography (LOROP) is a challenging study due to the fact that measurement errors become more evident with increasing shooting distance, significantly affecting the calculation results. This paper introduces a novel high-accuracy target geolocation method based on multi-view observations. Unlike the usual target geolocation methods, which heavily depend on the accuracy of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and INS (Inertial Navigation System), the proposed method overcomes these limitations and demonstrates an enhanced effectiveness by utilizing multiple aerial images captured at different locations without any additional supplementary information. In order to achieve this goal, camera optimization is performed to minimize the errors measured by GNSS and INS sensors. We first use feature matching between the images to acquire the matched keypoints, which determines the pixel coordinates of the landmarks in different images. A map-building process is then performed to obtain the spatial positions of these landmarks. With the initial guesses of landmarks, bundle adjustment is used to optimize the camera parameters and the spatial positions of the landmarks. After the camera optimization, a geolocation method based on line-of-sight (LOS) is used to calculate the target geolocation based on the optimized camera parameters. The proposed method is validated through simulation and an experiment utilizing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images, demonstrating its efficiency, robustness, and ability to achieve high-accuracy target geolocation.


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    Title :

    Improving Target Geolocation Accuracy with Multi-View Aerial Images in Long-Range Oblique Photography


    Contributors:
    Chongyang Liu (author) / Yalin Ding (author) / Hongwen Zhang (author) / Jihong Xiu (author) / Haipeng Kuang (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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