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INDUSTRY
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wide range of remote sensing
applications. It provides
autoshutter, autoexposure,
and autodark correction
before each new scan, with
no optimization step, for
one touch scanning. With
no moving optics, it delivers
superior field reliability.
The enhanced RS-3500 Bundle includes the accessories
researchers want, such as pistol grip, fiber optic adapter
with quick release thumbscrew mount, Pelican shipping case,
backpack, 1.5m fiber optic cable, reflectance plate, GETAC PS-
336 handheld computer, two li-ion batteries and charger sets,
Bluetooth USB adapter, mini USB cable, and base DARWin
software (including pulldown access to 19 vegetation indices)
on a USB thumb drive.
For more information on the RS-3500, visit
PUBLICATIONS
LizardTech White Paper Reveals 12 Hidden Gems in
GeoExpress Software —
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, a provider of software
solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, has
published a white paper showing users how to access 12 little-
known geospatial data manipulation tools inside its popular
GeoExpress® software. The white paper is free to download.
GeoExpress offers a dozen built-in applications that users
can leverage to further process and enhance their geospatial
data sets. LizardTech developed these tools to improve end
user efficiency when working with raster satellite and aerial
imagery and lidar elevation data.
Mosaicking is one of the most pow-
erful functions found in GeoExpress.
It enables users to digitally stitch
together multiple raster images or
lidar data into seamless, geograph-
ically continuous mosaics. The num-
ber of individual scenes that can be
mosaicked is limited only by comput-
er capacity. For raster images, once
the mosaic is complete, users can ap-
ply a variety of Color Balance tools
to eliminate contrasts among scenes
and create a visually consistent im-
age.
The other hidden gems allow
GeoExpress users to Crop and Re-
project data on the fly, Despeckle
compressed images, and Edit Meta-
data in header files. In addition,
GeoExpress offers a wide variety of options for Exporting files,
creating Multispectral Color Composites, and Watermarking
images. Newly added in mid-2015, compression tools perform
LiDAR Conversion to a variety of popular file formats.
Read about all 12 Hidden Gems in GeoExpress by visiting
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UPDATES
Teledyne Optech up-
grades Lynx SG with 600
lines per second and re-
al-time LAS file output —
is pleased
to announce two critical per-
formance upgrades designed
to once again give a leading
edge to users of its
and
mo-
bile survey systems. The pro-
grammable scan speed of the Lynx SG and SG-S has been in-
creased by 20% — pushing the already industry-leading Lynx
SG platform to 600 lines per second. In addition, all models in
the Lynx mobile product line now output a real-time LAS file
designed for in-field coverage checks and rapid access to the
survey data.
With support for up to 10 cameras, survey-grade lidar
precision, continued industry-leading scanner performance,
and a productivity-focused
processing solution
that provides for real-time calibration, boresight, trajectory
optimization and control validation, the Lynx mobile survey
system is the pre-eminent solution for transportation and civil
engineering applications where accuracy matters.
Find out more at
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April2015
Volume81,Number4
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Overview and Current Status
of Remote Sensing
Applications Based
on Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs)
UAV Monograph
Overview and Current Status of Remote Sensing Applications
Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Published in the April 2015 issue of
PE&RS
, this monograph provides an
extensive treatise on available remotely piloted aircraft, in particular, UAS
platforms, associated airborne sensors, their capabilities, and a glimpse at
the variety of applications for them. The author describes the variety of
fixed-winged and rotary-winged UAS, e.g., multi-rotor“copters”and delves
into the variety of sensors like RGB, infrared, multispectral and hyperspectral
cameras, lidar, and radar/synthetic-aperture radar. As well as a variety of
applications for these intriguing systems.
A benefit of UAS, is that they are useful for work that is“dull, dirty, or
dangerous.” These benefits are demonstrated in the highlight article
“Testing a Small UAS for Mapping Artisanal Diamond Mining in Africa”
which presents a fascinating look at a particularly unique application for
UAS. The work of aerial image acquisition of so-called“blood diamond”
mines and mining operations is dangerous for the human scientists in
strife-torn West and Central Africa.
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