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Experimental laser scanning of sandstone landscape using UAV

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2019

Abstract

The paper is focused on the practical experience of authors with field data collection using lidar miniVUX-1UAV from RIEGL mounted on DJI Matrice 600 Pro. Due to the specific conditions of the sandstone terrain and the high-density requirements of the resulting point cloud, the fieldwork was not routine even from the perspective of professional pilots from UpVision who controlled the drone.

The aim of the whole project is to evaluate the effect of data density on the rock shapes in the resulting digital relief model and to propose a filtration procedure that would work reliably even in such an extremely rugged terrain.