Platforms and sensors

Due to ever advancing technologies, the remote sensing field is experiencing unprecedented . Using the broadest definition of remote sensing, there are innumerable types of platforms upon which to deploy an instrument. Discussion in this course will be limited to the commercial platforms and sensors most commonly used in mapping and GIS applications. Satellites and aircraft collect the majority of base map data . Author and Instructor: Karen Schuckman, John A.

This courseware module is part of .

Sensor : the remote sensing device recording wavelengths of energy.

Aerial photography - the plane and the camera. These attributes include: distance the sensor is from the object of interest, periodicity of image . Marine science is largely underpinned by technology which is driven and sculpted by mutual interactions between scientists and engineers. Platforms for remote sensors may be situated on . We currently live in an era where technology is available to access, explore and sample the marine environment in its entirety.

These platforms are freely moving in their orbits around the earth, and entire earth or any part of the earth can be covered at specified intervals. The coverage mainly depends on the orbit of the satellite. It is through these space borne platforms , we get the enormous amount of remote sensing data and as such the remote . Craig Underwoo has the remit of developing the instruments, systems and data processing techniques needed to investigate the Earth and other planetary environments from space. EOL manages NSF-owned ground-base polarimetric weather radars that provide atmospheric researchers with measurements of the structure, movement and severity of precipitating cloud systems and on the type and amount of resulting precipitation.

Major advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies are of great interest to mapping organisations because these platforms are potentially more flexible to fly and cheaper to run than manned aircraft. We have undertaken trials of several commercially available UAVs and continue to watch how the stability of this . In the past half century the IC technology could produce an unprecedented growth and penetration into all segments of our daily life due to the achieved extreme productivity and reliability by using well established and continuously refined processing platforms. This uninterrupted trend continued also with the advent of the . Membrane platforms for sensors. SENSOR PLATFORMS USED IN REMOTE SENSING : INTRODUCTION: A platform is the vehicle or carrier for remote sensors for which they are borne. In Meteorology platforms are used to house sensors which are obtain data for remote sensing purposes, and are classified according to their heights and events to be . Currently, new UAS platforms and sensors are released at an impressive pace.

Especially small, lightweight cameras and easy-to-use, out-of-the-box UAS platforms are among the key innovations. Our 3DR Solo quadcopters are part of these new generation platforms and have proven great reliability.