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Here are four research papers on mapping drones, all free to read on arXiv. Each summary is ours, written from the paper's abstract.
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Faster, more accurate ways to turn drone photos into maps.
What they foundA system merges drone maps from several flights and uses RTK positioning to curb drift.
Scene-graph merging plus RTK alignment and coarse-to-fine optimisation.
What they foundA deep-learning aerial triangulation method processes drone imagery hundreds of times faster than incremental methods.
A neural network that weighs both spatial and spectral image features.
What they foundFusing GPS, IMU, radar and camera data speeds up orthoimage generation and works in low-texture farmland.
Experiments with a multi-sensor drone system.
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