A New Method for UAV Lidar Precision Testing Used for the Evaluation of an Affordable DJI ZENMUSE L1 Scanner

Autor: Martin Štroner, Rudolf Urban, Lenka Línková
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing
Volume 13
Issue 23
Pages: 4811
Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 4811, p 4811 (2021)
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs13234811
Popis: Lately, affordable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-lidar systems have started to appear on the market, highlighting the need for methods facilitating proper verification of their accuracy. However, the dense point cloud produced by such systems makes the identification of individual points that could be used as reference points difficult. In this paper, we propose such a method utilizing accurately georeferenced targets covered with high-reflectivity foil, which can be easily extracted from the cloud; their centers can be determined and used for the calculation of the systematic shift of the lidar point cloud. Subsequently, the lidar point cloud is cleaned of such systematic shift and compared with a dense SfM point cloud, thus yielding the residual accuracy. We successfully applied this method to the evaluation of an affordable DJI ZENMUSE L1 scanner mounted on the UAV DJI Matrice 300 and found that the accuracies of this system (3.5 cm in all directions after removal of the global georeferencing error) are better than manufacturer-declared values (10/5 cm horizontal/vertical). However, evaluation of the color information revealed a relatively high (approx. 0.2 m) systematic shift.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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