GPS-INS DATA INTEGRATION FOR REMOTE SENSING

J. R. Gibson

Canada Center for Remote Sensing (CCRS)

Data Acquisition Division

K. P. Schwarz, M. Wei, M.E.

Cannon

Department of Surveying Engineering

The University of Calgary

ABSTRACT
Flight tests have been performed for t h e purpose of assessing t h e use
of post-mission
integrated data from GPS and INS systems for remote
sensing applications.
While GPS data alone are sufficient for aircraft guidance, they do currently not satisfy t h e requirement for
position and attitude information at high data rates, with typical
sampling times between 5 and 4 0 ms.
This information i s needed or
image processing applications where data discontinuities greater than
a few centimeters in the positions must be avoided.
The paper describes t h e test design which provided for multiple GPS
stations o n t h e ground
from which the GPS receiver in the aircraft
was monitored.
The airborne GPS receiver was precisely synchronized
with the stable platform INS. The accuracy of position, velocity and
attitude is analyzed using different approaches t o post-mission data
integration.
These results are then used to georeference t h e imagery
from t h e Multiple-Detector Electro-Optical
Imaging Scanner (MEIS)
developed by CCRS and t o compare them t o independent ground truth.
The project was initiated by t h e Canada
the Canada Centre for Surveying and has
Ministry of Transportation, Ontario and
versity of Calgary and t h e University of

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Centre for Remote Sensing and

included participation by the
research groups from The UniNew Brunswick.