PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
January 2016
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To be held at the 2016 Annual Conference in FortWorth, Texas April 11-15, 2016
This year’s challenge celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the National Park Service!
The ASPRS SAC is challenging you and your team to use freely available imagery to produce an innovative visualization
product featuring the national park of your choice. Examples include: Time series animation, GIS fly through, Online
story map, Image based structure frommotion, or a 3D model. Check out
FindYourPark.com
for more inspiration!
Credit:
Stay tuned for more details about the challenge and prizes on the ASPRS website!
Credit: NPS
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Theofficial journal for imagingandgeospatial information scienceand technology
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.
$20.00 + shipping
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