Collecting Spatial Data with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Abstract

The paper briefly discusses the nature and advantages of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a spatial data acquisition method. This method and its possibilities are subject of scientific research in the area of geodesy, cadaster, architecture, construction of infrastructure objects and facilities, agricultural activities, cultural and historical heritage and even more over the last decades. This publication discusses in short, the principles and possibilities for creating a three-dimensional data model using the advantages of unmanned aerial vehicle. The building of University of Architecture, civil engineering and geodesy, situated in Semkovo resort, Blagoevgrad district is selected for the purpose of the task. Classical land surveying measurements with a total station and the data collected with an unmanned aerial vehicle are used for the creation of the three-dimensional model. A comparison and evaluation of the obtained model is made. The result of this evaluation indicates that the technology of unmanned aerial vehicle is efficient for representation of high-quality data with a wide scope of advantages such as high range, fast data collecting and processing.