vii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER TITLE PAGE THESIS STATUS DECLARATION SUPERVISOR’S DECLARATION DECLARATION ON COOPERATION WITH OUTSIDE AGENCIES AND CERTIFICATION OF EXAMINATION 1 TITLE PAGE i DECLARATION ii DEDICATION iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv ABSTRACT v ABSTRAK vi TABLE OF CONTENTS vii LIST OF TABLES xi LIST OF FIGURES xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xv LIST OF APPENDICES xvi INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Problem Statement 2 1.3 Research Objectives 3 1.4 Research Scopes 4 1.5 Contribution 4 1.6 Literature Review 4 viii 1.7 2 The appliances 8 1.7.1 Mapping Sensor 9 1.7.2 GPS Receiver 9 1.7.3 PhotoModeler 9 1.7.4 Matlab 9 1.8 Research Methodology 10 1.9 Thesis Outline 12 CONCEPT AND THEORY 13 2.1 Global Positioning System 13 2.1.1 Concept of GPS Positioning 14 2.1.2 GPS Receivers Consideration 16 2.2 GPS Observation Techniques 17 2.2.1 Static Technique 18 2.2.2 Rapid Static Technique 18 2.2.3 Kinematic Technique 19 2.3 Geographical Information System 19 2.4 Photogrammetry 20 2.4.1 Rotation 21 2.4.2 Orientation 22 Coordinate Transformation 25 2.5.1 26 2.5 Two Dimensional Transformation 2.6 Terrestrial Photogrammetry 27 2.7 Mobile Mapping System 28 2.7.1 Georeferencing 30 2.7.2 Attribute Information in Mobile Mapping 32 2.8 Camera Calibration 33 2.8.1 Laboratory Calibration 33 2.8.2 On-the-job Calibration 35 2.8.3 Self Calibration 35 ix 3 SYSTEM DESIGN, SYSTEM CALIBRATION AND FIELD PROCEDURE 37 3.1 System Design 37 3.1.1 Post Process Kinematic Positioning 38 3.1.2 Camera Position 38 3.2 3.3 4 39 3.2.1 Calibration Procedure 39 3.2.2 Camera Information 43 Field procedure 44 SOFTWARE AND IMAGE PROCESSING 46 4.1 PhotoModeler 46 4.1.1 Accuracy Factor 46 4.1.2 Project Setup 48 4.1.3 Camera Setup 49 4.1.4 Import Photographs 50 4.1.5 Marking and Referencing 51 4.1.6 Translation 52 4.1.7 Scaling 53 4.1.8 Rotation 54 4.1.9 Point Table 55 4.1.10 Export Coordinate 56 2D Transformation Program 58 4.2 5 Camera Calibration RESULTS AND ANALYSIS 62 5.1 Camera Calibration 62 5.2 Distance Test 62 5.3 Baseline Test 65 5.4 Base map 67 5.5 Updating Road Database 69 5.6 Updating Infrastructure 71 x 5.7 6 Updating Building 75 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 82 6.1 Conclusions 82 6.2 Recommendations 84 REFERENCES Appendices A - F 85 89 - 110 xi LIST OF TABLES TABLE NO. TITLE PAGE 2.1 Example of Available MMS 29 5.1 Camera Calibration Results 62 5.2 Accuracy Assessment of 5 meters 64 5.3 Accuracy Assessment in 10 meters 64 5.4 Accuracy Assessment in 15 meters 64 5.5 Accuracy Assessment in 20 meters 65 5.6 Result of Short Baseline 66 5.7 Result of Long Baseline 67 5.8 Four GPS Checkpoints established in the Study Area 67 5.9 Accuracy Assessment of Road Database 70 5.10 Accuracy Assessment of Road Sign Project 72 5.11 Accuracy Assessment of 5 meters Baseline 78 5.12 Accuracy Assessment of 12.7 meters Baseline 78 5.13 Accuracy Assessment of 22 meters Baseline 78 5.14 Results of Updating Building B 80 xii LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE NO. TITLE PAGE 1.1 Mobile Mapping System 3 1.2 Basic Concept of Mobile Mapping System 7 1.3 PhotoModeler, Digital Camera, GPS Receiver and Matlab 8 1.4 Flow Chart of Research Methodology 11 2.1 Principle of Satellite Positioning 15 2.2 The Intersection of Surface of Position based on Range Measurement 17 2.3 Sequential Rotation of Axes in Three Dimensional Spaces 22 2.4 Object Coordinate System 22 2.5 Image Coordinate Frame in Object Coordinate System 23 2.6 Relationships between Different Coordinate System 31 2.7 Laboratory camera calibration in this research 34 3.1 System Design 37 3.2 System Configuration 38 3.3 Calibration Grid 40 3.4 Camera Calibration Project 42 3.5 Processing Finished Dialog Box 43 3.6 Parameters of Calibrated Camera 44 xiii 3.7 Mobile Mapping System in Study Area 44 3.8 System Configuration during Data Acquisition Phase 45 4.1 Accuracy Factor 47 4.2 Set up New Project 48 4.3 Measurement Unit 49 4.4 Camera Review 49 4.5 Import Images 50 4.6 Marking Points in the Middle Image 51 4.7 Marking Points at the Left Angle Image 52 4.8 Setting up the Coordinate 53 4.9 Assigned Camera with Translation Coordinates 53 4.10 Setting up the Scale Factor 54 4.11 Two Cameras are assigned with Scale 54 4.12 X-axes and Z-axes are defined in the Image 55 4.13 Quality Assessment of the Points 56 4.14 Cameras Position 57 4.15 Points Coordinate 58 4.16 Flow Chart of 2D Transformation Program 59 4.17 Program Interface 60 4.18 Import File to the Program 60 4.19 The ‘Quit’ button 61 5.1 Distance Test 63 5.2 Check Points of Distance Test 63 5.3 Set up of Camera Baseline 66 5.4 Study Area Digital Map 68 xiv 5.5 Four GPS Checkpoints of Study Area 68 5.6 Road Database Project 69 5.7 Image of Road Database Project 70 5.8 Road Sign Project 72 5.9 Road Sign in Base Map (scale 1:3900) 73 5.10 Qualitative Accuracy of Road Sign Project (scale 1:300) 73 5.11 Bus Stop in Base Map (scale 1:3900) 74 5.12 Qualitative Accuracy of the Bus Stop Project (Scale 1:300) 74 5.13 Updating ‘Building A’ Project 75 5.14 Image of Building for Part 1 76 5.15 Image of Building for Part 2 76 5.16 Image of Building for Part 3 77 5.17 Location of Check Point 3 in the Image 77 5.18 Building A in Base Map (scale 1:2300) 79 5.19 Updating ‘Building B’ Project 79 5.20 Building B 80 5.21 Building B in Base Map (scale 1:2300) 81 xv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS cm Centimetre DOP Dilution of Positioning DSMM Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia DTM Digital Terrain Model GIS Geographical Information System GLONASS Global Satellite Navigation System GPS Global Positioning System Hz Hertz Km Kilometre m Metre mm Millimetre OTF On-the-fly ppm Part per million PPK Post Processed Kinematic PRN Pseudo Random Noise RMS Roof Mean Squares RSO Rectified Skew Orthomophic RTK Real Time Kinematics TGO Trimble Geomatics Office WGS84 World Geodetic System 1984 3D Three Dimensional 2D Two Dimensional xvi LIST OF APPENDICES APPENDIX TITLE PAGE A SPECIFICATIONS OF DIGITAL CAMERAS 90 B SPECIFICATIONS OF GPS RECEIVERS 96 C CAMERA CALIBRATION PROJECT FOR KODAK DC290 AND CANON S400 101 RESULTS OF ROAD NETWORK AND BUS STOP PROJECTS FROM TGO 104 POINTS REPORT OF ROAD SIGN, BUS STOP AND BUILDING PROJECTS 108 COORDINATE CONVERSION PROJECT FROM RSO TO WGS84 USING TGO 110 D E F