Review of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry for Aerial Mapping Applications

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry one of the most popular photogrammetry technique due to short period of time for data acquisition and low costs compared to the use of classical manned aircrafts. This technique widely been used in many kind of application that related to aerial mapping. This paper review the UAV photogrammetry used for aerial mapping applications. The previous results by others researchers showed the capability of the UAV photogrammetry captures the complex shape and topography. The application for the image processing uses a sequence of 2-dimensional (2D) images to recreate a scene and built it in 3-dimensional (3D) model. The study will utilize the software for 3D models reconstruction which are open source tools and commercial software packages. The study also describe the brief idea to enchance the uses of the UAV photogrammetry in research. End user will have ideas using of the software for photogrammetry.