Monitoring Antarctic mosses with a multi-sensor Unmanned Aircraft System

31 Pages·2013·30.65 MB·English

Monitoring Antarctic mosses with a multi‐sensor
Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
Arko Lucieer, Zbyněk Malenovský, Darren Turner,
Tony Veness, Diana King, Sharon Robinson
School of Geography & Environmental Studies
University of Tasmania, Australia
Objectives & Outline
• To map the spatial extent and health of
Antarctic moss beds from UAV
photography, multispectral, thermal, and
hyperspectral imagery
• Outline
– Antarctic moss beds: what’s the problem?
– SfM terrain model + derivatives
– Co-registration RGB ortho, DSM,
multispectral, and thermal
– Hyperspectral UAS prototype
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Water availability
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2003
2008
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QuickBird
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MikroKopter OktoKopter
Digital SLR: Tetracam mini- Thermal sensor:
Canon 550D MCA6 Photon FLIR 320
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Height: 50 m; extent: 64x43 m; resolution: 1 cm
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3D terrain models
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140 m
Lucieer, A., Turner, D., King, D.H., and Robinson, S.A. (in press). Using an Unmanned Aerial
65 m
Vehicle (UAV) to capture micro-topography of Antarctic moss beds. International Journal of
UAV-g 2013, Rostock, GermanyApplied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.