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Title: Digital terrain modelling by remotely piloted aircraft: optimization and geometric uncertainties in precision coffee growing projects
Keywords: Remote sensing
Precision agriculture
Cartography
Digital elevation model
Structure from Motion (SfM)
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Citation: SANTANA, L. S. et al. Digital terrain modelling by remotely piloted aircraft: optimization and geometric uncertainties in precision coffee growing projects. Remote Sensing, [S.l.], v. 14, n. 4, 2022.
Abstract: The implantation of coffee crop plantations requires cartographic data for dimensioning areas and planning the planting line. Digital terrain models (DTMs) obtained from remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) can contribute to efficient data collection for topography making this technique applicable to precision coffee projects. Aiming to achieve efficiency in the collection, processing and photogrammetric products quality, flight configurations and image processing were evaluated. Two hundred sixty-five points obtained by Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers characterized the topographic surface. Then eighteen flight missions were carried out by RPA in the configurations of altitude above ground level (AGL) and frontal and lateral image overlay. In addition, different point cloud formats evaluated the image processing (time) efficiency in DTM. Flights performed at 120 m AGL and 80 × 80% overlap showed higher assertiveness and efficiency in generation DTMs. The 90 m AGL flight showed great terrain detail, causing significant surface differences concerning the topography obtained by GNSS. An increase in image overlap requires longer processing times, not contributing linearly to the geometric quality of orthomosaic. Slope ranges up to 20% are considered reliable for precision coffee growing projects; above 20% overestimates the slope values of the land. Changes in flight settings and image processing are satisfactory for precision coffee projects. Image overlap reduction was significant in reducing the processing time without influencing the quality of the DTMs. In addition, image processing performed in shallow point clouds did not interfere with the DTMs quality.
URI: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/4/911
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