PHOTOGRAMMETRY

SIMULATION OF LABORATORY EXAMINATION

Academic Year 2015/2016 - 26/01/2016

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Photogrammetric survey done with a UAV Microdrones MD-200. The camera mounted on
the drone was a mass market camera, namely Sony NEX-5 with a focal length. The images
have a resolution of 4592x3065 and the flight height was about 18 m, while the camera was
oriented in pseudo-nadiral direction.
GCP were surveyed in a local reference system using a total station, thus the accuracy of
measurements is about 1 cm in all the three coordinates. GCP were identified using plastic
high-contrast panels, as shown in monograph.
The exam material (you found it on BeeP, use the UAS dataset) consists of
- Three images;
- Monographs of GCP;
- File of the camera calibration;
- Text file with the coordinates of GCP in the local reference frame.
Notice that camera calibration has been done using Photomodeler and that camera calibration
parameters are given according to Australis Standard. Pay attention to different film
origins.
It is required to deliver:
- The present paper with compiled answers;
- The project file of Erdas IMAGINE (SURNAME_ID.blk);
- Camera calibration file (SURNAME_ID.cam);
- Report of Bundle Block Adjustment (SURNAME_ID.txt)
QUESTIONS
1. When creating the project, specify the setting used for these two parameters:

Geometric Model Category

Geometric Model

Motivate your choice:

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2. Report the parameters chosen for the reference frame:

Horizontal reference frame
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Vertical reference frame

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3. Report camera calibration parameters inserted into the software with useful comments

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4. Report values chosen for the internal orientation

Pixel size Pixel size

in X (m) in Y (m)

5. Compute mean GSD (show the computation passages)

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6. Show for each GCP the kind of usage (check or control) and the number of images on
which it is observed
N.B. it is not mandatory to use the full dataset; in this case motivate your choice.

ID KIND N. IMM. ID KIND N. IMM.

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3 12

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9 18

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7. Show the name of tie points and the number of images on which they are visible. Explain
the criteria used in searching TP and the problems found in the search.

ID TIPO N. IMM. ID TIPO N. IMM.

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8. Compute system redundancy (show the computations)
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9. Explain the choices done for Bundle Block Adjustment. In particular, show the
parameters that you modify with respect to the default values and explain why.
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10. Show the threshold used as convergence value and the number of iterations required by
the adjustment. Explain motivations.
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11. Report the RMSE value of Bundle Block Adjustment, the residuals on the GCP and CP
and comment these results. If the system does not converge, analyse the causes of the
problem.
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12. Report the external orientation parameters of the first image with the corresponding
estimated standard deviations. Explain what each parameter represents.
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