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The Center for Mapping at The Ohio State University

The Center for Mapping (CFM) is both a NASA Commercial Space Center and an Ohio State University interdisciplinary research center focused on spatial data technologies, including remote sensing, geodesy using the Global Positioning System (GPS), inertial navigation systems (INS), photogrammetry, image processing, computer vision, image understanding, modeling, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

The Center's corporate vision is the conceptualization, design, testing, and application of a commercially relevant Total Mapping System (TMS). TMS is a conceptual framework that supports comprehensive availability of geographic information, and combines three fundamental components: Spatial Data Acquisition Systems, Spatial Data Processing Systems, and Spatial Data Visualization and Distribution Systems.

Airborne Integrated Mapping System

In 1995, the Center for Mapping proposed the development of a fully digital data acquisition system for large-scale mapping and other precise positioning applications. The proposed system, known as the Airborne Integrated Mapping System (AIMS), will be installed in an aerial platform and will incorporate state-of-the-art GPS/INS positioning and imaging technologies (Charge-Coupled-Device (CCD), infrared, thermal). The planned performance parameters of the system are:

  • accuracy of position and orientation of an aerial platform: 5-7 centimeters and ~30 arcsec, respectively in real-time
  • essential processing of digital imagery such as histogram equalization and imprinting in real-time
  • post-processing of digital imagery to extract feature coordinates at decimeter accuracies

While no specific details on the integration of laser scanning with the AIMS system are provided, several references are included to the system having this capability.

For further information browse  the AIMS home page.