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Furthermore, a small measurement platform may have an effect on the accuracy of orientations measured by an IMU; for instance, caused by electromagnetic fields emitted by the boat rotors, the lidar, and other hardware decreasing IMU accuracy. As an alternative, we use exterior orientation parameters obtained by photogrammetric methods from the images of a camera on the boat capturing the riverbanks in time-lapse mode. Using control points and tie points on the riverbanks enables georeferenced position and orientation determination from the image data, which can then be used to transform the lidar data into a global coordinate system. The main influences on the accuracy of the camera orientations are the distance to the riverbanks, the size of the banks, and the amount of vegetation on them. Moreover, the quality of the camera orientation-based lidar point cloud also depends on the time synchronization of camera and lidar. 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