Direct Georeferencing for UAV Products & Services
Direct Georeferencing or DG directly measures the position and orientation of an airborne mapping sensor, such as a digital camera or a laser scanner. Thereby making it possible to assign a geographical location on the earth to a pixel from a camera image or a digital point from a laser, without the need for ground control points or any additional measurements referencing the ground.
- Worry-free solution built for all environments
- Rugged, yet lightweight hardware
- Powerful, but not power-hungry technology
- Custom designed components engineered to tightly integrate all of the enabling technologies
- Proven accuracy
- Global support
To compute the position and orientation of an imaging payload to a very high degree of accuracy and precision, our DG solutions use multi-frequency, multi-constellation RTK and post-processed carrier phase Differential GNSS tightly integrated with calibrated inertial sensors.
For Photogrammetric Applications
The Exterior Orientation (EO) of each image is pre-computed before any point-matching or adjustment phase. Unlike a PPK position-only DGNSS solution, having the full position and orientation of the payload eliminates all issues associated with: automatic project set-up, failed point matching, and reduced sidelap.
For LiDAR Applications
Direct Georeferencing for LiDAR directly measures the position and orientation of the LiDAR with respect to the earth. This means the 3D coordinates of a point cloud computed from the LiDAR ranges and angles can be directly assigned a geographical location on the earth, without the need for ground control points or any additional measurements referencing the ground.
Our DG solutions work with all mapping sensors, including: RGB cameras, NIR cameras, Thermal cameras, LiDAR, SAR, Multispectral and Hyperspectral cameras. The georeferencing can be done in real-time or, for highest accuracy, in post-mission using Applanix POSPac MMS Software.
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