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GSI point-distributed coded targets (GCTs), which are only mainly applied in a video-simultaneous triangulation and resection system (V-STARS), are non-public and rarely applied in UAV photogrammetry. In this paper, we present our innovative detailed solution to identify GCTs. First, we analyze the structure of a GCT. Then, a special 2D P2-invariant of five coplanar points derived from cross ratios is adopted in template point registration and identification. Finally, the affine transformation is used for decoding. Experiments indoors\u2014including different viewing angles ranging from 0\u00b0 to 80\u00b0 based on 6 mm-diameter GCTs, smaller 3 mm-diameter GCTs, and different sizes mixed\u2014and outdoors with challenging scenes were carried out. Compared with V-STARS, the results show that the proposed method can preserve the robustness and achieves a high accuracy rate in identification when the viewing angle is not larger than 65\u00b0 through indoor experiments, and the proposed method can achieve approximate or slightly weaker effectiveness than V-STARS on the whole. Finally, we attempted to extend and apply the designed GCTs in UAV photogrammetry for a preliminary experiment. This paper demonstrates that GCTs can be designed, printed, and identified easily through our method. 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