Modeling, measurement, and calibration of three-axis integrated aerial camera pointing errors
- 22 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Measurement Science and Technology
- Vol. 32 (7), 075206
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/abdef5
Abstract
Aerial cameras are currently widely used in various fields. However, traditional aerial cameras have certain limitations. We propose a new three-axis integrated aerial camera that can significantly improve imaging efficiency. Both traditional aerial cameras and three-axis integrated aerial cameras suffer from reductions in image quality due to mechanical errors. In this paper, we analyze the influence of mechanical errors on pointing errors and establish a pointing parametric model (PM) based on spatial coordinate transformation and ray tracing. We also consider how the presence of nonlinear errors in aerial cameras affects image quality, and propose a semi-parametric model (SPM) to compensate for nonlinear errors. The PM and the SPM can be used to calibrate the pointing of aerial cameras. In addition, we propose an improved measurement method that can gauge the pointing errors that occur when the three-axis integrated aerial camera rotates to different angles. The results prove that both the PM and the SPM can effectively calibrate the pointing of the aerial camera. Following calibration using the SPM, the pointing errors were greatly reduced. The mean was reduced by more than two orders of magnitude, and the variance was reduced by 99.95%. The SPM completes the pointing calibration better than the PM.Keywords
Funding Information
- the national key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFE0105100)
- Cross-disciplinary Research Funding Program for Doctoral Students of Jilin University (419100200810)
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