Building and site reconstruction from small scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV´s)

This paper investigates the use of small scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV´s) for the 3D reconstruction of buildings and urban sites. The paper discusses the current state-of-the-art and benefits of using UAV imagery. Furthermore, the paper describes the steps of a highly automated 3D reconstruction pipeline. Experiments are carried out to show the benefits of UAV imagery for urban building reconstruction and results are compared to these of traditional aerial imaging.