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Aerial Photograph Image Pickup Method And Aerial Photograph Image Pickup Apparatus

  • US 20120300070A1
  • Filed: 05/17/2012
  • Published: 11/29/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An aerial photograph image pickup method comprising a step of making a flying object, which comprises a GPS device and an image pickup device for taking an image downward, fly meanderingly, a step of taking the image at each vertex where a direction is changed in the meandering flight, a step of extracting feature points from a common overlap portion of the images taken from at least three vertexes adjacent to each other, a step of determining two images of two vertexes in said images as one set and acquiring positional information of said two vertexes by said GPS device for each set regarding at least two sets, a step of performing photogrammetry of the measuring points corresponding to said feature points based on the positional information and based on said feature points of said two images and a step of determining said feature points when the surveying results of said measuring points coincide with each other in at least said two sets as tie points for image combination.

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