Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping ›› 2020, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (6): 45-48,56.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2020.0178

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Digital surface model refining using projected images

CHEN Yannan1, WANG Jiali2   

  1. 1. College of Marine Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China;
    2. College of Information Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
  • Received:2019-08-12 Online:2020-06-25 Published:2020-07-01

Abstract: With the wide use of photogrammetry technology and the increasing demand for photogrammetric products, true orthoimages (orthoimages generated by using digital surface models (DSM)) play an increasingly important role in many engineering applications and lives. How to obtain a highly accurate DSM is the key for true orthoimage generation. The current means of obtaining DSM is mainly through either digital photogrammetry technology or 3D laser scanning technology. For many reasons, the DSM obtained has more or less various error sources. The common methods to correct those DSM errors (DSM obtained through digital photogrammetry technology) are mainly manual editing or reprocessing the troubled images. These methods are time-consuming or/and labor intensive, low-accuracy and random. In this paper, a new method is proposed to correct some DSM errors to improve the quality and accuracy of DSM. The new method is based on the concepts of projected images and the projected loci of a spatial point on the projected images as the geometry constraint, employs some popular image matching techniques to find the correct elevations. The details of the method are given and results from two experiments demonstrate that the proposed method is effective and very promising in correcting and refining DSM, and has certain potentials in practice use.

Key words: DSM, orthoimage, projected image, projected locus, image matching

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