A smartphone camera for the structure from motion reconstruction for measuring soil surface variations and soil loss due to erosion

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Vinci ◽  
F. Todisco ◽  
R. Brigante ◽  
F. Mannocchi ◽  
F. Radicioni
Keyword(s):  
Structure From Motion ◽  
Soil Loss ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Surface Characteristics ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Minimum Level ◽  
Motion Reconstruction ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
First Results

The suitability of a smartphone camera for the structure from motion (SfM) reconstruction for monitoring variations in soil surface characteristics and soil loss originated by a low intensity erosive event was evaluated. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) was used to validate the SfM model. Two surveys of the soil surface, one before and one after the rainfall event, were carried out for SfM and TLS. The point clouds obtained by the SfM were compared to the TLS point clouds (used as reference). From the point clouds, digital elevation models (DEMs) (0.01 m × 0.01 m) were obtained. The differences of the DEMs (DoDs) obtained from the two surveys for SfM and TLS were compared. To assess the uncertainty of the DEMs, from the DoDs the minimum level of detection was derived. The soil loss was evaluated from DoDs (for SfM and TLS, respectively) considering negative values as erosion and positive values as deposition. The SfM appears appropriate and sensitive for detecting small soil surface variations induced by low erosive events. The SfM estimated correctly the measured soil loss, while TLS underestimated 26%. Further studies could be carried out to consolidate these first results.

scholarly journals Analysis of glacial and periglacial processes using structure from motion

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1345-1398 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Piermattei ◽  
L. Carturan ◽  
F. de Blasi ◽  
P. Tarolli ◽  
G. Dalla Fontana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structure From Motion ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Surface Displacement ◽  
Surface Characteristics ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Rock Glacier ◽  
Dense Image ◽  
Survey Technique ◽  
Close Range ◽  
Geodetic Mass Balance

Abstract. Close-range photo-based surface reconstruction from the ground is rapidly emerging as an alternative to lidar (light detection and ranging), which today represents the main survey technique in many fields of geoscience. The recent evolution of photogrammetry, incorporating computer vision algorithms such as Structure from Motion (SfM) and dense image matching such as Multi-View Stereo (MVS), allows the reconstruction of dense 3-D point clouds for the photographed object from a sequence of overlapping images taken with a digital consumer camera. The objective of our work was to test the accuracy of the ground-based SfM-MVS approach in calculating the geodetic mass balance of a 2.1 km2 glacier in the Ortles-Cevedale Group, Eastern Italian Alps. In addition, we investigated the feasibility of using the image-based approach for the detection of the surface displacement rate of a neighbouring active rock glacier. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) data were used as benchmarks to estimate the accuracy of the photogrammetric DTMs and the reliability of the method in this specific application. The glacial and periglacial analyses were performed using both range and image-based surveying techniques, and the results were then compared. The results were encouraging because the SfM-MVS approach enables the reconstruction of high-quality DTMs which provided estimates of glacial and periglacial processes similar to those achievable by ALS. Different resolutions and accuracies were obtained for the glacier and the rock glacier, given the different survey geometries, surface characteristics and areal extents. The analysis of the SfM-MVS DTM quality allowed us to highlight the limitations of the adopted expeditious method in the studied alpine terrain and the potential of this method in the multitemporal study of glacial and periglacial areas.

Terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from-motion photogrammetry concordance analysis for describing the surface layer of gravel beds

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J Neverman ◽  
Ian C Fuller ◽  
Jon N Procter ◽  
Russell G Death
Keyword(s):  
Surface Layer ◽  
Structure From Motion ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Terrestrial Laser Scanning ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Gravel Beds ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Sampling Biases

Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and structure-from-motion photogrammetry (SfMp) offer rapid, non-invasive surveying of in situ gravels. Numerous studies have used the point clouds derived from TLS or SfMp to quantify surface layer characteristics, but direct comparison of the methods for grain-scale analysis has received relatively little attention to date. Comparing equivalent products of different data capture methods is critical as differences in errors and sampling biases between the two methods may produce different outputs, effecting further analysis. The sampling biases and errors related to SfMp and TLS lead to differences in the point clouds produced by each method. The metrics derived from the point clouds are therefore likely to differ, potentially leading to different inputs for entrainment threshold models, different trends in surface layer development being identified and different trajectories for physical processes and habitat quality being predicted. This paper provides a direct comparison between TLS and SfMp surveys of an exposed gravel bar for three different survey periods following inundation and reworking of the bar surface during high flow events. The point clouds derived from the two methods are used to describe changes in the character of the surface layer between bar inundation events, and comparisons are made with descriptions derived from conventional pebble counts. The results found differences in the metrics derived using each method do exist, but the grid resolution used to detrend the surfaces and identify spatial variations in surface layer characteristics had a greater impact than survey method. Further research is required to understand the significance of these variations for quantifying surface texture and structure and for predicting entrainment thresholds and transport rates.

scholarly journals Terrestrial Laser Scanning for the Detection of Coarse Grain Size Movement in a Mountain Riverbed

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walicka ◽  
Jóźków ◽  
Kasprzak ◽  
Borkowski
Keyword(s):  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Terrestrial Laser Scanning ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Horizontal Displacement ◽  
Mountain Stream ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Fluvial Transport ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Load Transport ◽  
Elevation Model

Fluvial transport is a natural process that shapes riverbeds and the surrounding terrain surface, particularly in mountainous areas. Since the traditional techniques used for fluvial transport investigation provide only limited information about the bed load transport, recently, laser scanning technology has been increasingly incorporated into research to investigate this issue in depth. In this study, a terrestrial laser scanning technique was used to investigate the transport of individual boulders. The measurements were carried out annually from 2011 to 2016 on the Łomniczka River, which is a medium-sized mountain stream. The main goal of this research was to detect and determine displacements of the biggest particles in the mountain riverbed. The methodology was divided into two steps. First, the change zones were detected using two strategies. The first strategy was based on differential digital elevation model (DEM) creation and the second involved the calculation of differences between point clouds instead of DEMs. The experiments show that the second strategy was more efficient. In the second step, the displacements of the boulders were determined based on the detected areas of change. Using the proposed methodology, displacements for individual stones in each year were determined. Most of the changes took place in 2012–2014, which correlates well with the hydrological observations. During the six-year period, movements of individual particles with diameters less than 0.8 m were observed. Maximal displacements in the observed period reached 3 m. Therefore, it is possible to determine both vertical and horizontal displacement in the riverbed using multitemporal TLS.

Surface runoff, soil and nutrient losses from farming systems in the Australian semi-arid tropics

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Dilshad ◽  
JA Motha ◽  
LJ Peel
Keyword(s):  
Surface Runoff ◽  
Soil Conservation ◽  
Soil Loss ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Surface Characteristics ◽  
Control Surface ◽  
Arable Soils ◽  
North West ◽  
Semi Arid

Most soils suitable for dryland agriculture in north-west Australia occur in the Daly Basin. These are sesquioxidic soils which include red, yellow and grey earths, and soils related to yellow and red earths. The potential, for these arable soils to be degraded by highly erosive rainfalls, common to the region, is high. Farming practices strongly influence the soil surface characteristics (vegetation cover, roughness, soil strength), which in turn control surface runoff, and sediment detachment and transport. In studies conducted during 1984-89 in the Daly Basin, conventionally tilled catchments, produced 1.5-2 times more runoff and lost 1.5-6 times more soil than their no-tillage counterparts (all catchments were within soil conservation banks). In these conventionally tilled catchments, soil loss was <8.1 t/ha.year. Other studies in the region have shown that, without soil conservation banks, soil loss can be around 100/ha.year under conventional tillage. Little work, however, has been undertaken on farms in the Australian semi-arid tropics to study the movement of nutrients and herbicides (in ionic and adsorbed forms) and further research is warranted.

scholarly journals Comparison of UAS-Based Structure-from-Motion and LiDAR for Structural Characterization of Short Broadacre Crops

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 3975
Author(s):  
Fei Zhang ◽  
Amirhossein Hassanzadeh ◽  
Julie Kikkert ◽  
Sarah Jane Pethybridge ◽  
Jan van Aardt
Keyword(s):  
Structure From Motion ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Multiscale Model ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Crop Height ◽  
Ground Control Points ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Row Width ◽  
Model Cloud

The use of small unmanned aerial system (UAS)-based structure-from-motion (SfM; photogrammetry) and LiDAR point clouds has been widely discussed in the remote sensing community. Here, we compared multiple aspects of the SfM and the LiDAR point clouds, collected concurrently in five UAS flights experimental fields of a short crop (snap bean), in order to explore how well the SfM approach performs compared with LiDAR for crop phenotyping. The main methods include calculating the cloud-to-mesh distance (C2M) maps between the preprocessed point clouds, as well as computing a multiscale model-to-model cloud comparison (M3C2) distance maps between the derived digital elevation models (DEMs) and crop height models (CHMs). We also evaluated the crop height and the row width from the CHMs and compared them with field measurements for one of the data sets. Both SfM and LiDAR point clouds achieved an average RMSE of ~0.02 m for crop height and an average RMSE of ~0.05 m for row width. The qualitative and quantitative analyses provided proof that the SfM approach is comparable to LiDAR under the same UAS flight settings. However, its altimetric accuracy largely relied on the number and distribution of the ground control points.

scholarly journals Fusion of high resolution remote sensing images and terrestrial laser scanning for improved biomass estimation of maize

2014 ◽  
Vol XL-7 ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Hütt ◽  
H. Schiedung ◽  
N. Tilly ◽  
G. Bareth
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Laser Scanner ◽  
Terrestrial Laser Scanning ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Biomass Estimation ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Elevation Model ◽  
In The Beginning

In this study, images from the satellite system WorldView-2 in combination with terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) over a maize field in Germany are investigated. Simultaneously to the measurements a biomass field campaigns was carried out. From the point clouds of the terrestrial laser scanning campaigns crop surface models (CSM) from each scanning date were calculate to model plant growth over time. These results were resampled to match the spatial resolution of the WorldView-2 images, which had to orthorectified using a high resolution digital elevation model and atmosphere corrected using the ATCOR Software package. A high direct correlation of the NDVI calculated from the WorldView-2 sensor and the dry biomass was found in the beginning of June. At the same date, the heights from laser scanning can also explain a certain amount of the biomass variation (<i>r</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.6). By combining the NDVI from WorldView-2 and the height from the laser scanner with a linear model, the R2 reaches higher values of 0.86. To further understand the relationship between CSM derived crop heights and reflection indices, a comparison on a pixel basis was performed. Interestingly, the correlation of the NDVI and the crop height is rather low at the beginning of June (<i>r</i><sup>2</sup> = 0,4, <i>n</i> = 1857) and increases significantly (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0,79, <i>N</i> = 1857) at a later stage.

scholarly journals TERRESTRIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY VS LASER SCANNING FOR RAPID EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W4 ◽  
pp. 527-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Vasilakos ◽  
S. Chatzistamatis ◽  
O. Roussou ◽  
N. Soulakellis
Keyword(s):  
Structure From Motion ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Point Cloud ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Earthquake Damage ◽  
Map Building ◽  
Dense Point ◽  
Terrestrial Photogrammetry ◽  
Earthquake Damage Assessment

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Building damage assessment caused by earthquakes is essential during the response phase following a catastrophic event. Modern techniques include terrestrial and aerial photogrammetry based on Structure from Motion algorithm and Laser Scanning with the latter to prove its superiority in accuracy assessment due to the high-density point clouds. However, standardized procedures during emergency surveys often could not be followed due to restrictions of outdoor operations because of debris or decrepit buildings, the high human presence of civil protection agencies, expedited deployment of survey team and cost of operations. The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether terrestrial photogrammetry based on a handheld amateur DSLR camera can be used to map building damages, structural deformations and facade production in an accepted accuracy comparing to laser scanning technique. The study area is the Vrisa village, Lesvos, Greece where a Mw&amp;thinsp;6.3 earthquake occurred on June 12th, 2017. A dense point cloud from some digital images created based on Structure from Motion algorithm and compared with a dense point cloud acquired by a laser scanner. The distance measurement and the comparison were conducted with the Multiscale Model to Model Cloud Comparison method. According to the results, the mean of the absolute distances between the two clouds is 0.038&amp;thinsp;m while the 94.9&amp;thinsp;% of the point distances are less than 0.1&amp;thinsp;m. Terrestrial photogrammetry proved to be an accurate methodology for rapid earthquake damage assessment thus its products were used by local authorities for the calculation of the compensation for the property loss.</p>

scholarly journals A method based on structure-from-motion photogrammetry to generate sub-millimetre-resolution digital elevation models for investigating rock breakdown features

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankit Kumar Verma ◽  
Mary Carol Bourke
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Structure From Motion ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Digital Elevation Models ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Weathered Rock ◽  
Topographic Data ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Dense Point

Abstract. We have generated sub-millimetre-resolution DEMs of weathered rock surfaces using SfM photogrammetry techniques. We apply a close-range method based on structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry in the field and use it to generate high-resolution topographic data for weathered boulders and bedrock. The method was pilot tested on extensively weathered Triassic Moenkopi sandstone outcrops near Meteor Crater in Arizona. Images were taken in the field using a consumer-grade DSLR camera and were processed in commercially available software to build dense point clouds. The point clouds were registered to a local 3-D coordinate system (x, y, z), which was developed using a specially designed triangle-coded control target and then exported as digital elevation models (DEMs). The accuracy of the DEMs was validated under controlled experimental conditions. A number of checkpoints were used to calculate errors. We also evaluated the effects of image and camera parameters on the accuracy of our DEMs. We report a horizontal error of 0.5 mm and vertical error of 0.3 mm in our experiments. Our approach provides a low-cost method for obtaining very high-resolution topographic data on weathered rock surfaces (area < 10 m2). The results from our case study confirm the efficacy of the method at this scale and show that the data acquisition equipment is sufficiently robust and portable. This is particularly important for field conditions in remote locations or steep terrain where portable and efficient methods are required.

Development on Filtering Algorithms of Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds

2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 1892-1898
Author(s):  
Jian Qing Shi ◽  
Ting Chen Jiang ◽  
Ming Lian Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Airborne Lidar ◽  
Filtering Algorithms ◽  
Filtering Algorithm ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
City Model ◽  
Elevation Model

Airborne LiDAR is a new kind of surveying technology of remote sensing which developed rapidly during recent years. Raw laser scanning point clouds data include terrain points, building points, vegetation points, outlier points, etc.. In order to generate digital elevation model (DEM) and three-dimensional city model,these point clouds data must be filtered. Mathematical morphology based filtering algorithm, slope based filtering algorithm, TIN based filtering algorithm, moving surface based filtering algorithm, scanning lines based filtering algorithm and so on several representative filtering algorithms for LiDAR point clouds data have been introduced and discussed and contrasted in this paper. Based on these algorithms summarize the studying progresss about the filtering algorithm of airborne LiDAR point clouds data in home and abroad. In the end, the paper gives an expectation which will provides a reference for the following relative study.

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