Low-Cost UAV-Based Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing: Platform, Calibration and Applications
Thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing is recognized as a powerful tool for collecting, analyzing and modeling of energy fluxes and temperature variations. Traditional aircraft, satellite or ground TIR platforms can provide valuable regionalscale environmental information. However, these platforms have limitations, such as expensive cost, complicated manipulation, etc. In comparison, small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have many advantages in TIR remote sensing applications over traditional platforms. In this paper, a low-cost UAV-based TIR remote sensing platform: AggieAir-TIR is introduced. AggieAir-TIR is a small, low-cost, flexible TIR remote sensing platform, which was accomplished at the Center for Self Organizing and Intelligent Systems (CSOIS) in Utah State University (USU). The detailed introduction of AggieAir-TIR remote sensing platform is provided in the paper. Furthermore, a low-cost TIR imaging camera calibration experiment is designed, and the calibration results are provided. Based on this AggieAir-TIR remote sensing platform, many remote TIR image data collection and analysis projects can be effectively implemented.
Unmanned aerial vehicles remote sensing thermal infrared image unmanned aircraft systems AggieAir-TIR.
Hu Sheng Haiyang Chao Cal Coopmans Jinlu Hanb Mac McKee YangQuan Chen
Department of Electronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China 116024.;Electri Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA 84322. Utah Water Research Laboratory (UWRL), Utah State University, 8200 Old Main Hill Logan, UT, USA.
国际会议
青岛
英文
38-43
2010-07-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）