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Photogrammetric processing performed using the Agisoft Metashape software.<\/p>\n
The site was a snow-covered field with longitudinal and transverse ditches, partially overgrown with willow 2 to 7 meters high. Compared to classical geodetic survey, when topographical survey of a site is carried out by a surveyor, unmanned aerial technologies provide better accuracy for this type of terrain. Why?<\/p>\n
Firstly.\u00a0<\/strong>The accuracy of the terrain is generally higher, since the flight materials allow the automatic reconstruction of a 3D model from a dense point cloud (ranging from 100 thousand to tens of millions of points, depending on processing requirements). On this particular site, the thickness of the snow cover was uniform. It was measured at several control points, and did not exceed the average statistical error of classical surveying. Also, with classical geodesy, the surveyor will take measurements at points with the density of 10-20 meters, or only measure the key points of the relief. Thus, the resulting surface model will be much less detailed, compared to the aerial survey outcome.<\/p>\nHere is an example of an orthomosaic and a DEM of the site:<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Secondly.\u00a0<\/strong>The contours of the boundaries of ditches, cliffs, slopes and other key elements of the relief, visible on a detailed surface, allow one to determine the \u201cfracture line\u201d more accurately and draw it on the topographic plan. In field conditions, the surveyor does not always see a clear boundary of the \"relief fracture\".<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Thirdly.\u00a0<\/strong>The Agisoft Metashape omits the trees and bushes from the terrain reconstruction, when processing the materials of a winter survey with low forest density (overgrown ditches in this example). In other words, it does not see these elements when creating a height map.<\/p>\nThe elevation points obtained using Metashape are almost identical to the control with field measurements in areas of tree vegetation.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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