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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2014
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Gernot Hillier, Landshut, DE;
Rupert Maier, Eggolsheim, DE;
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for producing a vector map of a prescribed area may include producing orthophotographs by a first camera oriented at right angles to the Earth's surface and fitted to an unmanned, automated air vehicle that overflies the prescribed area at a high altitude; evaluating the orthophotographs to ascertain at least one infrastructure network located in the area; computing a flight route for the unmanned autonomous air vehicle along the ascertained infrastructure network located in the area; producing detail aerial photographs of the infrastructure network along the computed flight route by a second camera oriented obliquely with respect to the Earth's surface and fitted to the unmanned automated air vehicle that overflies the infrastructure network located in the area at least one low altitude, and computing the vector map of the area based on the orthophotographs produced and the detail aerial photographs.