Chances of GPS-satellite-navigation for aerial photogrammetry
Abstract
The 'Global Positioning System (GPS)' offers excellent possibilities for both survey navigation and camera orientation, which can be of great importance for the future. A general review is given of the advantages accompanied with it. Then the methods of the precise positioning and attitude determination are explained, which are based upon the carrier phase measurement. For the attitude determination the coordinate transformations are described, which allow to derive the orientation data from the interferometric measurement data. In principle, one can achieve relative accuracies of better than one meter rms for three-dimensional positioning during flight and of much better than one arcmin in attitude.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report A
- Pub Date:
- November 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986STIA...8727122H
- Keywords:
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- Aerial Photography;
- Global Positioning System;
- Photogrammetry;
- Air Navigation;
- Cameras;
- Cartesian Coordinates;
- Interferometry;
- Orientation;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking