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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
ASPRS Certification Program
ASPRS certification is official recognition by one’s
colleagues and peers that an individual has
demonstrated professional integrity and compe-
tence in his or her field.
Apply for certification as a
• Photogrammetrist
• Mapping Scientist – Remote Sensing
• Mapping Scientist – GIS/LIS
• Photogrammetric Technologist
• GIS/LIS Technologist
• Remote Sensing Technologist
• Certified Mapping Scientist – Lidar
• Certified Lidar technologist
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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.
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