The DOM generation and precise radiometric calibration of a UAV-mounted miniature snapshot hyperspectral imager

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Yang, Guijun ^a,b   Li, Changchun ^c   Wang, Yanjie ^a,c   Yuan, Huanhuan ^c   Feng, Haikuan ^a,b   Xu, Bo ^a,b   Yang, Xiaodong ^a  

^a AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^b NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE   (China)

^c HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral DOM; POS interpolation; Radiometric calibration; Radiometric response variation; Snapshot hyperspectral imaging; UAV

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; GEOMETRY; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; SURVEYING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ABSOLUTE-RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; LIGHTWEIGHT UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; POSITION AND ORIENTATION SYSTEM(POS); RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; RADIOMETRIC RESPONSE; SNAPSHOT HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 85022326693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9070642     Document Type: Article

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