DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC METHOD AND APPARATUS USING INTERGRATED MODELING OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SENSORS

• US 20090154793A1
• Filed: 05/05/2008
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KIM, Eui-myoung, KIM, Changjae, GHANMA, Mwafag, HABIB, Ayman, SHIN, Sung Woong
• Application Number:
  US12/115,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20090154793A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/154
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 11/06 by comparison of two or more pictures of the same area
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/245 by locating a pattern; Special marks for positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/13 Satellite images

Abstract

Disclosed is a digital photogrammetric method and apparatus using the integrated modeling of different types of sensors. A unified triangulation method is provided for an overlapping area between an aerial image and a satellite image that are captured by a frame camera and a line camera equipped with different types of sensors. Ground control lines or ground control surfaces are used as ground control features used for the triangulation. A few ground control points may be used together with the ground control surface in order to further improve the three-dimensional position. The ground control line and the ground control surface may be extracted from LiDAR data. In addition, triangulation may be performed by bundle adjustment in the units of blocks each having several aerial images and satellite images. When an orthophoto is needed, it is possible to generate the orthophoto by appropriately using elevation models with various accuracies that are created by a LiDAR system, according to desired accuracy.

Claims

1. A digital photogrammetric method comprising:

extracting ground control features indicating ground objects to be used to determine the spatial positions of the ground objects from geographic information data including information on the spatial positions of the ground objects;

specifying image control features corresponding to the extracted ground control features, in space images captured by cameras having completely or partially different camera parameters with each other;

establishing constraint equations from the geometric relationship between the ground control features and the image control features in an overlapping area between the space images; and

calculating exterior orientation parameters of each of the space images using the constraint equations, and applying the exterior orientation parameters to the space images to determine the spatial positions of the ground objects.

2. The digital photogrammetric method of claim 1,

wherein the ground control feature is a ground control line indicating a linear ground object or a ground control surface indicating a planar ground object, and

the image control feature is an image control line or an image control surface corresponding to the ground control line or the ground control surface, respectively.

3. The digital photogrammetric method of claim 2,

wherein, in the establishment of the constraint equations, when the ground control feature is the ground control line, the constraint equation is established from the geometric relationship in which both end points of the ground control line, the perspective center of the space image, and an intermediate point of the image control line are coplanar.

4. The digital photogrammetric method of claim 2,

wherein, in the establishment of the constraint equations, when the ground control feature is the ground control surface, the constraint equation is established from the geometric relationship in which the normal distance between a point included in the ground control surface and the image control surface is zero.

5. The digital photogrammetric method of claim 2,

wherein the ground control feature and the image control feature further include a ground control point indicating a ground object having a point shape and an image control point corresponding to the ground control point, and

in the establishment of the constraint equations, collinearity equations is further established as the constraint equations, derived from the geometric relationship in which the perspective center of the space image, the image control point, and the ground control point are collinear.

6. The digital photogrammetric method of claim 2,

wherein the geographic information data includes LiDAR data, and

in the extraction of the ground control features, the ground control features are extracted from the LiDAR data.

7. The digital photogrammetric method of claim 1,

wherein the determining of the spatial positions of the ground objects includes:

grouping the space images into blocks; and

performing bundle adjustment on the groups of the space images to simultaneously determine the spatial positions of the ground objects and the exterior orientation parameters.

8. The digital photogrammetric method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating orthophotos with respect to the space images by ortho-rectification using at least one of a plurality of elevation models.

9. The digital photogrammetric method of claim 8,

wherein the elevation model includes a DEM, a DSM, and a DBM created by a LIDAR system,

the DEM is an elevation model representing the altitude of the surface of the earth,

the DSM is an elevation model representing the heights of all structures on the surface of the earth except for buildings, and

the DBM is an elevation model representing the heights of buildings on the surface of the earth.

10. The digital photogrammetric method of claim 1,

wherein the space images include aerial images captured by a frame camera provided in an airplane and satellite images captured by a line camera provided in a satellite.

11. A digital photogrammetric apparatus comprising:

a control feature setting unit that extracts, from geographic information data including information on the spatial positions of the ground objects, ground control lines or ground control surfaces that respectively indicate linear ground objects or planar ground objects to be used to determine the spatial positions of the ground objects, and specifies image control lines or image control surfaces that respectively correspond to the extracted ground control lines or the extracted ground control surfaces, in space images including aerial images captured by a frame camera and satellite images captured by a line camera; and

a spatial position measuring unit that groups the space images into blocks, establishes constraint equations from the geometric relationship between the ground control lines and the image control lines or the geometric relationship between the ground control surfaces and the image control surfaces, in the space images, and performs bundle adjustment on the constraint equations to determine exterior orientation parameters of each of the space images and the spatial positions of the ground objects.

12. The digital photogrammetric apparatus of claim 11,

wherein the control feature setting unit extracts the ground control surfaces and specifies the image control surfaces, and further extracts ground control points indicating ground objects having point shapes and further specifies image control points corresponding to the ground control points, and

the spatial position measuring unit establishes the constraint equations for the ground control surfaces from the geometric relationship in which the normal distance between a point included in the image control surface and the ground control surface is zero, and further establishes, as the constraint equations, collinearity equations derived from the geometric relationship in which the perspective center of the space image, the image control point, and the ground control point are collinear.

13. The digital photogrammetric apparatus of claim 11,

wherein the geographic information data includes LiDAR data, and

the control feature setting unit extracts the ground control lines or the ground control surfaces from the LiDAR data.

14. The digital photogrammetric apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

an orthophoto generating unit that generates orthophotos with respect to the space images by ortho-rectification using at least one of a plurality of elevation models for different ground objects.

15. The digital photogrammetric apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

an orthophoto image generating unit that generates orthophotos with respect to the space images by ortho-rectification using at least one of a DEM, a DSM, and a DBM created by a LiDAR system,

wherein the DEM is an elevation model representing the altitude of the surface of the earth,

the DSM is an elevation model representing the heights of all structures on the surface of the earth except for buildings, and

the DBM is an elevation model representing the heights of buildings on the surface of the earth.