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The small footprint of UAV imagery, however, makes it necessary to develop automated techniques to geometrically rectify and mosaic the imagery such that larger areas can be monitored. In this paper, we present a technique for geometric correction and mosaicking of UAV photography using feature matching and Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetric techniques. Images are processed to create three dimensional point clouds, initially in an arbitrary model space. The point clouds are transformed into a real-world coordinate system using either a direct georeferencing technique that uses estimated camera positions or via a Ground Control Point (GCP) technique that uses automatically identified GCPs within the point cloud. The point cloud is then used to generate a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) required for rectification of the images. Subsequent georeferenced images are then joined together to form a mosaic of the study area. The absolute spatial accuracy of the direct technique was found to be 65\u2013120 cm whilst the GCP technique achieves an accuracy of approximately 10\u201315 cm.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs4051392","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,5,14]],"date-time":"2012-05-14T11:11:27Z","timestamp":1336993887000},"page":"1392-1410","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":581,"title":["An Automated Technique for Generating Georectified Mosaics from Ultra-High Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery, Based on Structure from Motion (SfM) Point Clouds"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Darren","family":"Turner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9468-4516","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Arko","family":"Lucieer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher","family":"Watson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,5,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1193","article-title":"A light-weight multispectral sensor for micro UAV\u2014Opportunities for very high resolution airborne remote sensing","volume":"37","author":"Nebiker","year":"2008","journal-title":"Int. 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