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Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-1009-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-1009-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
Short communication
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28 Oct 2019
Short communication |  | 28 Oct 2019

Short Communication: A simple workflow for robust low-cost UAV-derived change detection without ground control points

Kristen L. Cook and Michael Dietze

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UAVs have become popular tools for detecting topographic changes. Traditionally, detecting small amounts of change between two UAV surveys requires each survey to be highly accurate. We take an alternative approach and present a simple processing workflow that produces survey pairs or sets that are highly consistent with each other, even when the overall accuracy is relatively low. This greatly increases our ability to detect changes in settings where ground control is not possible.
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