Development of a UAV-Borne LiDAR System for Surveying Applications †
by
Marcel Dogotari
*, 
Moritz Prüm
,
Olee Hoi Ying Lam
,
Hemang Narendra Vithlani
,
Viet Hung Vu
,
Bethany Melville
and
Rolf Becker
Faculty of Communication and Environment, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, 47475 Kamp-Lintfort, Germany
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
Presented at TERRAenVISION 2019, Barcelona, Spain, 2–7 September 2019.
Proceedings 2019, 30(1), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019030075
Published: 23 May 2020
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of TERRAenVISION 2019)
Abstract
:A high-resolution UAV-borne LiDAR system with a Velodyne VLP16-Lite at its core was developed for surveying applications. The LiDAR unit was combined with a high-end IMU-GNSS solution for direct georeferencing (APX-15) and a single-board computer for data acquisition (2nd-gen. Intel NUC). Hardware and software solutions were developed for system integration. Moreover, a mechanical mount for isolating the sensitive components of the system from the UAV’s high-frequency vibration was built and evaluated. System architecture and preliminary results were presented. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis revealed the system’s most important sources of error and suggested ways to overcome these.
Acknowledgments
This work is part of the SPECTORS project with project number 143081, which is funded by the cooperation program INTERREG Deutschland-Nederland. The authors would also like to thank the staff of Planungs- und Vermessungsgesellschaft ANSPERGER mbH for their support in defining a use case for the developed system.
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Dogotari, M.; Prüm, M.; Lam, O.H.Y.; Vithlani, H.N.; Vu, V.H.; Melville, B.; Becker, R. Development of a UAV-Borne LiDAR System for Surveying Applications. Proceedings 2019, 30, 75. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019030075
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Dogotari M, Prüm M, Lam OHY, Vithlani HN, Vu VH, Melville B, Becker R. Development of a UAV-Borne LiDAR System for Surveying Applications. Proceedings. 2019; 30(1):75. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019030075
Chicago/Turabian StyleDogotari, Marcel, Moritz Prüm, Olee Hoi Ying Lam, Hemang Narendra Vithlani, Viet Hung Vu, Bethany Melville, and Rolf Becker. 2019. "Development of a UAV-Borne LiDAR System for Surveying Applications" Proceedings 30, no. 1: 75. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019030075
