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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-W8-2025-785-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Enhancing Urban UAV Photogrammetric Products Through Domain-Specific Training of the Real-ESRGAN Super-Resolution Model</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tavakoli</surname>
<given-names>Mohammadreza</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Eftekhari</surname>
<given-names>Ali</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>SaadatSeresht</surname>
<given-names>Mohammad</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jamshidpour</surname>
<given-names>Nasehe</given-names>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geomatics, University College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>29</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>X-4/W8-2025</volume>
<fpage>785</fpage>
<lpage>792</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Mohammadreza Tavakoli et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>The growing demand for high-resolution geospatial data in urban environments necessitates advanced methods to improve the quality of spatial products derived from UAV photogrammetry. This study presents a deep learning&amp;ndash;based framework for enhancing both the radiometric and geometric quality of UAV imagery using a fine-tuned Real-ESRGAN (Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network) model. The training process consists of two stages: an initial Real-ESRNet pretraining phase for stable pixel-level reconstruction (average pixel loss &amp;asymp; 0.03), followed by Real-ESRGAN fine-tuning to improve perceptual and structural fidelity (average perceptual and adversarial losses &amp;asymp; 8.5 and 0.25, respectively). Quantitative evaluation demonstrated that the fine-tuned Real-ESRGAN achieved a 3.5 dB improvement in PSNR and a 0.02 increase in SSIM compared with bicubic interpolation, and outperformed the pretrained Real-ESRNet by approximately 1.8 dB. The enhanced UAV images subsequently produced orthophotomosaics and 3D mesh models with greater radiometric consistency and geometric precision. These findings highlight that domain-specific fine-tuning of Real-ESRGAN provides substantial improvements in visual detail and spatial accuracy, confirming its practical value for high-fidelity urban mapping based on UAV photogrammetry.</p>
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