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Depends on the drones, but professional photogrammetry drones certainly do. You often have position (latitude, longitude and altitude in WGS-84), attitude (ya
by Leherenn 8y ago
Depends on the drones, but professional photogrammetry drones certainly do.
You often have position (latitude, longitude and altitude in WGS-84), attitude (yaw, pitch, roll) which already contains the gimbal orientation (e.g. the drone applies the lever arm to go from the IMU position to the camera optical center and output those) along with their covariances (accuracy) as well as timestamping.
If the camera has a rolling shutter, you might even have imu data (i.e. accelerations) to correct distortions.
Another important data for the reconstruction is the focal length.
Ultimately, it is the job of the reconstruction software to use those data.
Usually, they use them to initialise the process, and use the covariances as constraints, then they run their optimiser based on that. If your accuracies were too tight, the reconstruction will often fail as they trust you on the accuracies.
However, the better/more accurate the data (e.g. RTK data), the faster/easier it is for the software to do its job.