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Surveying system

  • US 10,274,316 B2
  • Filed: 12/08/2016
  • Issued: 04/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A surveying subsystem comprising:

  • a camera module;

    a control and evaluation unit, wherein the surveying subsystem is adapted to be used as part of a surveying system that is adapted to determine positions of a position measuring resource that includes a GNSS-antenna or a retro-reflector; and

    a hand-carried surveying pole on which the position measuring resource and the camera module are mounted, wherein;

    the camera module comprising at least one camera for capturing images;

    the control and evaluation unit has stored thereon a program with program code that, when executed, controls and executes a spatial representation generation functionality in which, when moving along a path through a surrounding;

    a series of images of the surrounding is captured with the at least one camera, the series comprising an amount of images captured with different poses of the camera, the poses representing respective positions and orientations of the camera,a SLAM-evaluation with a defined algorithm using the series of images is performed, wherein a plurality of respectively corresponding image points are identified in each of several sub-groups of images of the series of images and, based on resection and forward intersection using the plurality of respectively corresponding image points,a reference point field is built up comprising a plurality of reference points of the surrounding, wherein coordinates of the reference points are derived,the poses for the images are determined, anda quality indicative output is generated concerning the measurement uncertainty of a 3D-position for at least one point of the surrounding to be computable by forward intersection using the images of the series of images and the determined poses.

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