Commercial Off-the-Shelf Digital Cameras on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Multitemporal Monitoring of Vegetation Reflectance and NDVI

• Published in: IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing Vol. 55; no. 9; pp. 4878 - 4886
• Main Authors: Berra, Elias F., Gaulton, Rachel, Barr, Stuart
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.09.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Calibration; Cameras; Commercial off-the-shelf technology; Digital cameras; forest; Illumination; Landsat; Landsat satellites; Mathematical analysis; Monitoring; multispectral; Normalized difference vegetative index; phenology; Radiometry; Reflectance; Remote sensing; Satellites; Spatial discrimination; Spatial resolution; Time series; unmanned aerial system; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vegetation; Vegetation mapping; Woodlands

This paper demonstrates the ability to generate quantitative remote sensing products by means of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with one unaltered and one near infrared-modified commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) camera. Radiometrically calibrated orthomosaics were generated for 17 dates, fr...