UAV Photogrammetric Mapping System Showcased in Seoul
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UAV Photogrammetric Mapping System Showcased in Seoul

DroneMetrex recently demonstrated its UAV photogrammetric mapping system TopoDrone-100 to international visitors at the Smart Geospatial Expo, an international event featuring the newest and most advanced trends in the global spatial information industry. The Expo was held at COEX, Seoul, South Korea, from 25-27 August 2014, and was hosted by the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

DroneMetrex arranged a series of presentations and mapping demo flights to showcase the benefits and  features of the TopoDrone-100, including its accuracy - 10mm horizontal and better than 25mm in height. The TopoDrone-100 performed two mapping demo flights; one over a University complex and a second one over a mountainous terrain golf course.

Although the mountainous golf course presented turbulent flying conditions, it was not an issue for the system because the TopoDrone-100 is a mapping system that features the Revolutionary Dynamic-Stabilised Active Mount (DSAM) to ensure “no crab” (yaw) and active compensated tip and tilt, which ensures near-nadir photogrammetric imagery. The DSAM also ensured reliable and consistent side overlap for each flight run, despite the turbulent winds and high flight crab angles.

Georeferencing

DroneMetrex also demonstrated their Direct Georeferencing System and produced mapping of the golf course with no ground control. Accuracies were independently checked and verified: DroneMetrex achieved 4cm accuracy from the 4cm GSD imagery. At the end of the flight sortie, the TopoDrone-100 had to land on dirt during light rain. However, this provided no difficulties because the high-quality camera was protected by the TopoDrone’s protective door system, safely and cleanly “cocooning” the important mapping payload system.

DroneMetrex photogrammetrists quickly processed the acquired imagery and within one day generated mapping products including high density point clouds.

DroneMetrex aimed to show the international visitors that the TopoDrone-100 is a photogrammetric system delivering high quality, accurate data quickly and allowing to use the generated mapping products for many different applications: measure and monitor surface changes on a regular basis, update topographic maps, use the data for town planning and civil engineering purposes and many others.

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