Calibration of Industrial Cameras for Aerial Photogrammetric Mapping

This paper details the development of a camera calibration method purpose-built for use in photogrammetric survey production. The calibration test field was established in a hangar, where marker coordinates were measured using a high-precision survey methodology guaranteeing very high accuracy. An a...

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Main Authors: Jakub Kolecki, Przemysław Kuras, Elżbieta Pastucha, Krystian Pyka, Maciej Sierka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/19/3130
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Summary:This paper details the development of a camera calibration method purpose-built for use in photogrammetric survey production. The calibration test field was established in a hangar, where marker coordinates were measured using a high-precision survey methodology guaranteeing very high accuracy. An analytical model for bundle adjustment was developed that does not directly use the coordinates of field calibration markers but integrates bundle adjustment and survey observations into a single process. This solution, as well as a classical calibration method, were implemented in a custom software, for which the C++ source code repository is provided. The method was tested using three industrial cameras. The comparison was drawn towards a baseline method, OpenCV implementation. The results point to the advantages of using the proposed approach utilizing extended bundle adjustment.
ISSN:2072-4292