Performance evaluation of a light weight multi-echo LIDAR for unmanned rotorcraft applicationsShow others and affiliations
2013 (English)In: International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XL-1/W2, Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH , 2013Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The paper presents a light-weight and low-cost airborne terrain mapping system. The developed Airborne LiDAR Scanner (ALS) sys- tem consists of a high-precision GNSS receiver, an inertial measurement unit and a magnetic compass which are used to complement a LiDAR sensor in order to compute the terrain model. Evaluation of the accuracy of the generated 3D model is presented. Additionally, a comparison is provided between the terrain model generated from the developed ALS system and a model generated using a commer- cial photogrammetric software. Finally, the multi-echo capability of the used LiDAR sensor is evaluated in areas covered with dense vegetation. The ALS system and camera systems were mounted on-board an industrial unmanned helicopter of around 100 kilograms maximum take-off weight. Presented results are based on real flight-test data.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH , 2013.
Series
International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, ISSN 2194-9034
National Category
Robotics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-95889ISI: 000358305000016OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-95889DiVA, id: diva2:639341
Conference
Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics (UAV-g 2013), 4-6 September 2013, Rostock, Germany
Projects
Artificial Intelligence & Integrated Computer Systems
Funder
ELLIIT - The Linköping‐Lund Initiative on IT and Mobile CommunicationsEU, FP7, Seventh Framework ProgrammeLinnaeus research environment CADICS2013-08-072013-08-072019-07-03