Surface reflectance and sun-induced fluorescence spectroscopy measurements using a small hyperspectral UAS

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Garzonio, Roberto ^a   di Mauro, Biagio ^a   Colombo, Roberto ^a   Cogliati, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D surface model; Calibration and validation; FLEX; Hyperspectral; Reflectance signature; Spectroscopy; Sun induced fluorescence; UAS

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INFRARED DEVICES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURVEYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

3D SURFACE MODELING; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; FLEX; HYPERSPECTRAL; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION ALGORITHM; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 85019888618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9050472     Document Type: Article

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