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Geometric Camera Calibration in Support of GIS

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Introduction

With the emerging of mobile surveying technology such as UAV and mobile mapping system, the data collection for GIS is becoming more affordable. The sensors that commonly installed on platforms are cameras. In order to obtain accurate geometric information such as positions, heights, or areas of 3D object from images, the geometric camera calibration is very important.

The geometric camera calibration is a fundamental procedure in photogrammetry and computer vision. Particularly, the goal of geometric camera calibration is to estimate the geometric characteristic of a camera, i.e., the interior orientation which is the metric characteristics of the camera, e.g., focal length, lens distortion, or parameters of a camera model, and the exterior orientation which is the location and attitude of the camera in the object coordinate system. With camera calibration, one can determine how the incoming rays of light are mapped onto image, which is also known as forward projection....

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  1. Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), Bangkok, Thailand

    Panu Srestasathiern

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  1. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Rutgers Business School, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Srestasathiern, P. (2015). Geometric Camera Calibration in Support of GIS. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_1619-1

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