Browsing by Subject "integrated bundle adjustment"

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1

Access status: Open Access ,
Combined bundle adjustment with distances and GPS observations
(2015) Kolecki, Jakub
Today photogrammetric measurements are often supported by observations provided by such devices like inertial measurement units and GNSS receivers. Therefore the functional model of bundle adjustment often needs to be extended to handle various kinds of observations. In this paper the approach to supporting direct geo-referenced images with distance observations is proposed. The behavior of final accuracy of adjustment is examined depending on the number of distances involved. Besides the influence of inaccurate weighting of GPS observations is addressed. Tests were carried out using a closed-loop image network with good controllability and a large number of tie points. The results show that using distances as supplementary information may help to fix the scale of the photogrammetric network and prevent check point errors from increasing even if a low accuracy GPS solution is available. However one should always keep in mind that the role of distances depends on the accuracy of their measurements and finally on the geometry of the network.