Adaptation of remonte sensing methods for cultural heritage visualization and mapping

At these days unmanned aerial vehicles are widely used because of their easy exploatation. They have expanded adaptability, especially in scientific research because of their fast quality improvement. High-quality aerial photographs and the professional software image processing equipment lets to create 3D models of monuments or culture values, which you choose. In this scientific research it was created 3D models of Baltoji Vokė‘s estate and church of Paul conversion. The aim of this research was to create 3D models of cultural monuments and analize their abilities of cartography and vizualization. Methodology was separated into two main parts – the data receiving and processing. One of the most important part is to plan mission correctly. This includes not only the desired location and drone’s choice but preliminary weather planning, logistics planning, technical preparation of the drone. Processing the data obtained, it is necessary to create a point cloud images and digital terrain model, which you can display in orthography and recreated in a 3D model. This scientific research also describes the work of a possible 3D model mapping errors and their prevention. It also compares the accuracy of the model, depending on the quality of source data (manual or automatic mode drones). Methodology is easily understandable for a person with at least the minimum mapping and drone’s management knowledge. 3D models will be available to use for people who have access to ArcGIS Earth program