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How to use LPS with Quadrocopter images?


maunaloa

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Hi guys!

My gang working with a quadrocopter, which equipped with a simple digital camera. It makes 16 mpixel images. We wanted, to test it on an archeological site, to create ortophoto and surface model. We made photos, collected geodetical point datas. We installed the LPS, and wanted to use the photos. BUT, if i want to open the images with lps, and join to the session, i need to setup some thing, for example camera info (lense and other numbers), etc. My images are "raw" images, no croshairs are at the frame, like on the real airphotos. My question is that: have anyone any solution, to use this images with LPS? How can i calculate the camera values for the LPS? This camera is a Sony digital camera, i dont know any parameters, maybe the manufacturer share something, but i think, it isn't so simple. Waiting for replies:)

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Hi,

you have got to use the digital camera definition! By using this you do not have to specify the fiducial marks. Instead you have to know the focal distance (found in your photos metadata), the cell size of each pixel (found in the cameras description) and the lens distortion with the PPA or PPS. THose last values probabely you have to calculate by using the lens distortion parameter in the aerotriangulation (block adjustment / or ORMIA which is far better).

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  • 4 weeks later...

Hi!

I was busy, so i don't tested the LPs with my quadrocpter-made images. Now i have a bunch of images, and installed LPS. First, that LPS is a cr*p...I made a block file, wanted to import images, but i can't select JPG type,...

Thought, let's convert to ecw, and work with that. I imported the ECW files. I collected circa 15 gcp around the images. Now i have two images. I opened the frame editor, to setup camera datas.

I don't understand that datas. My friend, who amde the photos, created a camera calibration file, this:

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Status Report Tree

Project Name: *** Project has not yet been saved ***

Information from most recent processing

  Last Processing Attempt: Mon Apr 30 14:46:33 2012

  PhotoModeler Version: 6.2.2.596 - final,trial

  Status: successful

  Processing Options

      Orientation: off

      Global Optimization: on

      Calibration: on (full calibration)

      Constraints: off

  Total Error

      Number of Processing Iterations: 3

      Number of Processing Stages: 2

      First Error: 8.674

      Last Error: 8.656

  Precisions / Standard Deviations

      Camera Calibration Standard Deviations

        Camera1: DSC-H70 [4.25]

            Focal Length

              Value: 4.285611 mm

              Deviation: Focal: 0.002 mm 

            Xp - principal point x

              Value: 3.145539 mm

              Deviation: Xp: 0.001 mm 

            Yp - principal point y

              Value: 2.362853 mm

              Deviation: Yp: 0.003 mm 

            Fw - format width

              Value: 6.239422 mm

              Deviation: Fw: 9.5e-004 mm 

            Fh - format height

              Value: 4.680214 mm

            K1 - radial distortion 1

              Value: 3.396e-004

              Deviation: K1: 5.2e-005   

            K2 - radial distortion 2

              Value: -5.715e-006

              Deviation: K2: 2.8e-006   

            K3 - radial distortion 3

              Value: 0.000e+000

            P1 - decentering distortion 1

              Value: -2.132e-004

              Deviation: P1: 2.5e-005   

            P2 - decentering distortion 2

              Value: 5.369e-004

              Deviation: P2: 4.0e-005   

Quality

  Photographs

      Total Number: 8

        Bad Photos: 0

        Weak Photos: 0

        OK Photos: 8

      Number Oriented: 8

      Number with inverse camera flags set: 0

  Cameras

      Camera1: DSC-H70 [4.25]

        Calibration: yes

        Number of photos using camera: 8

        Average Photo Point Coverage: 92%

  Photo Coverage

      Number of referenced points outside of the Camera's calibrated coverage: 0

  Point Marking Residuals

      Overall RMS: 1.074 pixels

      Maximum: 4.953 pixels

        Point 119 on Photo 7

      Minimum: 0.317 pixels

        Point 20 on Photo 6

      Maximum RMS: 2.762 pixels

        Point 131

      Minimum RMS: 0.188 pixels

        Point 19

  Point Tightness

      Maximum: 0.0033 m

        Point 46

      Minimum: 0.00023 m

        Point 19

  Point Precisions

      Overall RMS Vector Length: 0.000467 m

      Maximum Vector Length: 0.000748 m

        Point 13

      Minimum Vector Length: 0.000414 m

        Point 72

      Maximum X: 0.000272 m

      Maximum Y: 0.000353 m

      Maximum Z: 0.000611 m

      Minimum X: 0.000168 m

      Minimum Y: 0.000169 m

      Minimum Z: 0.000337 m

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The quadrocopter flight height was cca. 15 m. Anyone can help me, what i need to setup with these calibration datas?

I checked the Erdas forum, but i hav'nt found any help.....

Olla

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For camera parameters you must calibrate camera. That i learn on my collage its simple but i forget now how to do that if you wish send me mail to ask assistant on my college and i will send you how to do that.

Ok I ask my assistant how he did that and he send me this link and say that this is possible in photo modeler and link to tutorials is

PhotoModeler Tutorials

Little explanation for digital camera you need only focal lenght (in this case it is  Value: 4.285611 mm) and principal x and y (in your case Xp - principal point x Value: 3.145539 mm and Yp - principal point y Value: 2.362853 mm)

My suggestion is to walk trough digital camera example in LPS help file.

If you have some question fell free to ask

BR

Bojan

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Hi,

I use images from a fixed wing drone, we use Microsoft ice for mosaic and agisoft for 3d model. In agisof you can do camera calibration and do ortophoto, work very good. Try to find this book! will answer all your questions.

James S. Aber, Irene Marzolff, Johannes Ries, "Small-Format Aerial Photography: Principles, techniques and geoscience applications

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Hi,

I use images from a fixed wing drone, we use Microsoft ice for mosaic and agisoft for 3d model. In agisof you can do camera calibration and do ortophoto, work very good. Try to find this book! will answer all your questions.

James S. Aber, Irene Marzolff, Johannes Ries, "Small-Format Aerial Photography: Principles, techniques and geoscience applications

This book    https://mega.co.nz/#!Bhcija7S!2vEmmLiQW0h2Yol64COzQY25Vgrz7_qC0A810MeJYWI

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maunaloa,

The data you gave is a callibration data created by PhotoModeler. You get it making 8 photos of a printed calibration patern to calculate lens distorsion. You can use this data later for any project (with the same camera) in PhotoModeler. I used PhotoModeler a lot long time ago, mostly for architectural visualizations to model existing houses.

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