A Simplified Empirical Line Method of Radiometric Calibration for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Based Remote Sensing

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1876-1885

  Wang, Chuyuan ^a   Myint, Soe W ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical line; radiometric calibration; small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS); very high resolution

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CALIBRATION EQUATIONS; DIGITAL SINGLE LENS REFLEXES; EMPIRICAL LINE; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION; VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

CALIBRATION; COORDINATE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 85027937388     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2422716     Document Type: Article

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