STEM8006 Airborne Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry GE

2019

4.5

1 x 2-hour lecture weekly
1 x 3-hour computer lab weekly

STEM2003 has been successfully completed

Assignment(s), Report, Test(s)

This topic will allow students to design an airborne mission for a Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) or manned aircraft fitted with an imaging device (e.g. multispectral camera) designed to scan the ground, plants, people or animals. Using photogrammetry students will create orthometric imagery and a Digital Surface Model (DSM), flown from an airborne mission. Students will also process thermal imagery or a LIDAR point cloud in a self-directed project. The topic will also teach students the reflective and emissive properties of materials and some of the techniques and applications used to detect plant vigour, animals/people, classify land/features and map change including disturbances like pollution, clearing or fire.

The aim of this topic is to allow students to be proficient in the design of an airborne mission for a Remotely Piloted Aircraft or manned aircraft and process the imagery to create an orthometric image and a Digital Surface Model (DSM) Separately, students analyse and process either thermal imagery or a LIDAR point cloud.

On completion of this topic, students will be expected to be able to:

1. Design an airborne mission for a Remotely Piloted Aircraft or manned aircraft fitted with a coloured metric camera or multispectral camera and apply photogrammetric post-processing to produce an orthometric image and DSM

2. Correct image content using a geometric and radiometric correction

3. Undertake band indexing or image classification

4. Identify image classification techniques and thermal object detection

5. Research image orthorectification and identify the steps involved in creating a point cloud and a Digital Surface Model from LIDAR and photogrammetry

6. Process either thermal imagery or a LIDAR point cloud

7. Identify the principal concepts of RADAR and LIDAR remote sensing and their use in a range of applications

8. Successfully communicate the results of image processing in remote sensing

9. Produce written work in accordance with good scholarly practice expected of a graduate award

10. Research the applications and limitations of airborne remote sensing and photogrammetry.