Method of radiometric quality assessment of NIR images acquired with a custom sensor mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Wierzbicki, Damian ^a   Fryskowska, Anna ^a   Kedzierski, Michal ^a   Wojtkowska, Michalina ^a   Delis, Paulina ^a  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

NIR images; radiometry; remote sensing; statistical image quality assessment; unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CAMERAS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHTING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

INFRARED SPECTRAL; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; NIR IMAGE; OPTO-ELECTRONIC SENSORS; RADIOMETRIC QUALITY; REMOTE SENSING MISSIONS; STATISTICAL IMAGES; THREE CATEGORIES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 85041485904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.12.015008     Document Type: Article

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