A Subband Radiometric Calibration Method for UAV-Based Multispectral Remote Sensing

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

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 2869-2880

  Deng, Lei ^a   Hao, Xianglei ^a   Mao, Zhihui ^a   Yan, Yanan ^a   Sun, Jie ^a   Zhang, Aiwu ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calibration targets; empirical line; radiometric calibration; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SENSORS; SPACE OPTICS; STANDARDS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WEAVING;

AVERAGE ABSOLUTE ERROR; CALIBRATION TARGETS; EMPIRICAL LINE; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES;

REMOTE SENSING;

CALIBRATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

LAMBERTIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85048634737     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2842466     Document Type: Article

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