High-Accuracy Airborne Integrated Mapping System

A fully digital Airborne Integrated Mapping System (AIMS) for large-scale mapping and other precise positioning applications is currently under development at The Ohio State University Center for Mapping. AIMS is designed to be installed in an aerial platform and incorporates state-of-the-art positioning (differential GPS integrated with INS) and imaging (CCD) technologies. Preliminary test results show that platform position and orientation can be obtained with an estimated accuracy better than 7 cm and 10 arcsec, respectively, over long baselines.