THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOLOCATION FROM UAS IMAGERY: INVESTIGATING AN INVERSE STRUCTURE-FROM-MOTION MODEL

摘要

We discuss an inverse approach to Structure-from-Motion that enables thegeolocation of an unmanned aerial system using a single, two-dimensional imagecorrelated to a digital surface model. This approach allows the calculationof airborne xyz position coordinates as well as the orientation parameters ofomega (ω), phi (Φ), and kappa (κ). This theoretical investigation with idealizedmodels seems promising.