An overview of mobile mapping system
El-Sheimy, Naser
An emerging solution to the problems faced in modern data collection campaigns is the integration of various navigation and remote sensing technologies together on a common moving platform. These Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS) are capable of providing fast, efficient, cost-effective, and complete data collection. Their development has been motivated by a desire to overcome the problems with alternative methods of spatial data collection. These alternative methods include point-wise GPS and traditional terrestrial surveying which are ill suited for rapid or dense data collection. MMS share none of these disadvantages, while still being capable of providing similar object space accuracies. This paper provides a brief history of MMS, including a summary of some of these systems developed up to now. It then details the development of the geo-referencing formulas used by MMS and shows how such formulas can be used to determine the accuracies of points measured by the system. The paper concludes with a closer examination of number of van-base, person-base and airborne-base mobile mapping.
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