UAV Based Image Acquisition Data for 3D Model Application

Abstract

The UAV mapping has a huge potential for a number of sectors including construction, agriculture, mining, infrastructure inspection and real estate. The demand for high quality aerial data capture from UAVs or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is growing fast and increase rapidly. In civil application, UAVs are used as an assisting tools for a large scale aerial mapping of the building which in general it's a challenging task for surveyor to do because of the unreachable access area, time consuming and often cost expensive due to the limited resources and equipment. In this thesis, the UAV based mapping is introduce to overcome this problem. The selected place to do the research is the building around Taman Sri Layang, Mentakab Pahang. A flight mission plan was developed in two path that is path A and path B and uploaded in UAV. In this study, the DJI Mavic Pro drone is used to do the mapping process. Besides that, the UAV will capture and collecting visual image when flying from different flight path. Both flight path covers 6 acres area, with 80% overlap and 70% side lap. The total picture is captured using path A and path B around 157 and 147 figures respectively.