The invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle sounding method based on
monocular vision positioning, and relates to the technical field of
sonar sounding
processing, and the method comprises the following steps: S01, obtaining an exterior orientation element deviation
correction number; s02, a three-dimensional model is established in a local coordinate
system with the acoustic center of the
sonar probe on the towed body as the original point, and the three-dimensional coordinates of a plurality of coding marks arranged on the upper surface of the towed body in the local coordinate
system are accurately measured; s03, dragging a towed body through the unmanned aerial vehicle for detection, and obtaining an exterior orientation element of the
monocular camera corrected in the step S01 when each frame of image is shot; s04, calculating the three-dimensional position and the three-dimensional attitude of the towed body in the
global coordinate system at each moment through space forward intersection; and S05, obtaining the three-dimensional coordinates of the
underwater topographic points under the
global coordinate system. According to the invention, the unmanned aerial vehicle flies to drive the
sonar to carry out
underwater topographic measurement, and the three-dimensional coordinates and attitude of the sonar are positioned based on the
monocular vision technology, so that the accurate coordinates of the point to be measured are obtained.