Improving UAV imaging quality by optical sensor fusion: an initial study

• Published in: International journal of remote sensing Vol. 38; no. 17; pp. 4931 - 4953
• Main Authors: Jabari, Shabnam, Fathollahi, Fatemeh, Roshan, Aditya, Zhang, Yun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Taylor & Francis 02.09.2017; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Cameras; Classification; Color; Colour; Filters; High resolution; Image classification; Imaging techniques; Military technology; Pixels; Quality; Quality assessment; Resolution; Sensors; Sharpness; Signal to noise ratio; Spatial resolution; Support vector machines; Unmanned aerial vehicles

The most frequent application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) is to collect optical colour images from an area of interest. Thus, high spatial resolution colour images with high amount of signal to noise ratio (SNR) are of great importance in UAV applications. Currently, most UAVs use single senso...