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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-W4-201-2015</article-id>
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<article-title>FUSION OF MULTI-VIEW AND MULTI-SCALE AERIAL IMAGERY FOR REAL-TIME SITUATION AWARENESS APPLICATIONS</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhuo</surname>
<given-names>X.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kurz</surname>
<given-names>F.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Reinartz</surname>
<given-names>P.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>German Aerospace Centre, 82234 Wessling, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>26</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2015</year>
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<volume>XL-1/W4</volume>
<fpage>201</fpage>
<lpage>206</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2015 X. Zhuo et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
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<p>Manned aircraft has long been used for capturing large-scale aerial images, yet the high costs and weather dependence restrict its
availability in emergency situations. In recent years, MAV (Micro Aerial Vehicle) emerged as a novel modality for aerial image
acquisition. Its maneuverability and flexibility enable a rapid awareness of the scene of interest. Since these two platforms deliver
scene information from different scale and different view, it makes sense to fuse these two types of complimentary imagery to
achieve a quick, accurate and detailed description of the scene, which is the main concern of real-time situation awareness. This
paper proposes a method to fuse multi-view and multi-scale aerial imagery by establishing a common reference frame. In particular,
common features among MAV images and geo-referenced airplane images can be extracted by a scale invariant feature detector like
SIFT. From the tie point of geo-referenced images we derive the coordinate of corresponding ground points, which are then utilized
as ground control points in global bundle adjustment of MAV images. In this way, the MAV block is aligned to the reference frame.
Experiment results show that this method can achieve fully automatic geo-referencing of MAV images even if GPS/IMU acquisition
has dropouts, and the orientation accuracy is improved compared to the GPS/IMU based georeferencing. The concept for a
subsequent 3D classification method is also described in this paper.</p>
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