Integrating oblique cameras The test site: Rocca San Silvestro
THE INFLUENCE OF FLIGHT PLANNING AND CAMERA ORIENTATION IN UAVs PHOTOGRAMMETRY.
A TEST IN THE AREA OF ROCCA SAN SILVESTRO LI, TUSCANY.
F. Chiabrando
a
, A. Lingua
b
, P. Maschio
b
, L. Teppati Losè
a a
DAD, Dept. of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, 10125 Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli, Torino, Italy - filiberto.chiabrando, lorenzo.teppatipolito.it
b
DIATI, Dept. of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, Torino, Italy - andrea.lingua, paolo.maschiopolito.it
Commission II KEY WORDS: UAVs Photogrammetry, Flight Planning, Camera Orientation, 3D documentation
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to discuss how much the phases of flight planning and the setting of the camera orientation can affect a
UAVs photogrammetric survey. The test site chosen for these evaluations was the Rocca of San Silvestro, a medieval monumental castle near Livorno, Tuscany Italy. During the fieldwork, different sets of data have been acquired using different parameters for
the camera orientation and for the set up of flight plans. Acquisition with both nadiral and oblique orientation of the camera have been performed, as well as flights with different direction of the flight lines related with the shape of the object of the survey. The
different datasets were then processed in several blocks using Pix4D software and the results of the processing were analysed and compared. Our aim was to evaluate how much the parameters described above can affect the generation of the final products of the
survey, in particular the product chosen for this evaluation was the point cloud.
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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 UAVs photogrammetry for Cultural Heritage data
recording Aerial photogrammetry has become in the last years a
widespread technique for the metric documentation of Cultural Heritage. Collection and processing of UAVs data are a fairly
consolidated practice and is possible to find many case studies in the scientific literature to acquire RGB images just to
mention a few of them: Aicardi et al., 2016; Fiorillo et al., 2013; Georgopoulos et al., 2016; Gruen, 2009; Nex
Remondino, 2014; Sauerbier Eisenbeiss, 2010, also in multitemporal application Aicardi et al., 2016 or multispectral
data Aicardi et al., 2016; Piras et al., 2016; Masiero et al., 2015; Spanò et al., 2016. Many authors have successfully used
UAVs in different contexts and with different purposes for large-scale documentation of Cultural Heritage. Moreover,
these platforms represent a low-cost alternative to the classical aerial photogrammetry technique Colomina Molina, 2014;
Irschara et al., 2010 The recent developments of the software for the Structure from Motion SfM and the continuous
improvements of increasingly automated algorithms for digital photogrammetry brought to an intensive use of this technique in
the last years. In addition, the reliability of these techniques in terms of
precision and accuracy, for large-scale documentation purposes, has been already demonstrated by different researchers
Georgopoulos et al., 2016; Harwin Lucieer, 2012; Rinaudo et al., 2012.