PE&RS December 2014 - page 1087

PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING December 2014 1087
PHOTOGRAMME TR I C ENG I NE ER I NG & REMOT E SENS I NG
The official journal for imaging and geospatial information science and technology
December 2014 Volume 80 Number 12
H I GHL I GHT ART I C L E
1089 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Activities at the
Department of the Interior
Bruce K. Quirk and Michael E. Hutt
PROF ESS I ONAL I NS I GHT—AN I NT ERV I EW
1096USS (Unmanned Santa Systems) Excitement and Con-
troversy at the North Pole
PE ER - REV I EWED ART I C L ES
1107 GPU Processing for UAS-Based LFM-CW Stripmap SAR
Craig Stringham and David G. Long
The development of a stripmap SAR backprojection processor that addresses the
geometries and motion typical of UAS-based SAR systems and achieves real-time
processing using a GPU.
1117 Feasibility Study for Pose Estimation of Small UAS in Known 3D Environment Using Geometric
Hashing
Julien Li-Chee-Ming and Costas Armenakis
A novel localization approach for small unmanned aerial systems in urban areas based
on matching video images with 3D models.
1129 Multi-UAV Surveillance over Forested Regions
Vengatesan Govindaraju, Gerard Leng, and Zhang Qian
A novel method to determine the near-optimal flight paths for Multiple UAVs to
conduct an effective surveillance over forested regions, using the DEM and land cover
information.
1139 Retrieval of Spectral Reflectance of High Resolution Multispectral Imagery Acquired with an
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: AggieAir™
Bushra Zaman, Austin Jensen, Shannon R. Clemens, and Mac McKee
Spectral reflectance retrieval of UAV AggieAir™ imagery.
1151 Modeling Above-Ground Biomass in Tallgrass Prairie Using Ultra-High Spatial Resolution
sUAS Imagery
Chuyuan Wang, Kevin P. Price, Deon van der Merwe, Nan An, and Huan Wang
Modeling and predicting tallgrass above-ground biomass can be accomplished using
ultra-high spatial resolution imagery collected by small unmanned aircraft systems.
1161 High Resolution Imagery Collection for Post-Disaster Studies Utilizing Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Stuart M. Adams, Marc L. Levitan, and Carol J. Friedland
Review and case study of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) usage for high
resolution imagery collection for post-disaster studies.
APPLICATIONS
PAPER
COLUMNS
Letter from Rae Kelley, ASPRS 1088
Assistant Director—Publications
Grids and Datums—Republic of Tajikistan 1099
Behind the Scenes 1101
Book Review—Advances in Mapping 1103
from Remote Sensor Imagery: Techniques
and Applications
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ASPRS 2015 Annual Conference 1085,1105
Call for Papers 1106
ASPRS Code of Ethics 1138
DEPARTMENTS
Region News 1098
Certification 1100
Industry News 1100
ASPRS News 1104
New Members 1104
Calendar 1116
Forthcoming Articles 1116
Who’s Who in ASPRS 1170
Sustaining Members 1171
Instructions for Authors 1173
Membership Application 1176
Advances in Unmanned
Aircraft Systems
Technology and
Applications is the focus
of this PE&RS special
issue. Successful military
application of Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (UAS)
technology to perform
intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance has
ignited the interest of
the civil, commercial
and academic remote
sensing communities
in the research and operational applications of these
technologies. This special issue of PE&RS focuses on
UAS technology and the current and future applications
of UAS. The cover represents a possible future scenario
where multiple UAS acquire different types of data
through different sensors – one UAS performs terrain
mapping with a lidar sensor, another is collecting forestry
data and also detects a fire, the third is gathering
water quality and flow information and the final UAS
is monitoring wildlife. These data can be shared and
integrated with other geospatial data to answer many
types of scientific inquiries.
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