The invention discloses a high-precision target positioning method based on
distortion calibration and a matched DEM, and the method comprises the steps: S1, enabling a camera to be installed on an unmanned plane platform, enabling a whole imaging
system and a carrier platform to serve as a
system for testing, carrying out the indoor preliminary statistical calibration, and determining the
distortion rate of each pixel point; s2, establishing a conversion relation from an image coordinate
system to a
geographic coordinate system, and performing coordinate conversion and calculation on a camera
field angle, a
focal length and resolution content and a ground shooting field range; s3, transforming the relation of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the camera and the image; s4, loading elevation DEM data based on
latitude and
longitude information, and determining the elevation of the target point; s5, performing
statistical analysis on the
system error by combining outdoor calibration, and solving the
system error compensation amount increased in the
longitude and
latitude process; and S6, obtaining high-precision position information of the target based on the steps S3, S4 and S5. According to the method, the target positioning difficulty can be greatly reduced, and the effects of reducing the holder load, reducing the cost and reducing the operation difficulty are achieved by fully utilizing the internal reference of the camera and the DEM data.