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📊 Examples of potential applications

  • Mature technology used to collect data over small fragmented riparian areas to provide evidence of planting, other compliance applications such as winter grazing, vegetation surveys (Kauri die-back).

  • Data of sufficient spatial and spectral resolution for deep learning feature extraction processes and with overlap photogrammetric point cloud extraction.

  • A useful method particularly if an LiDAR DTM already exists.

📏 Range of flight height and captured zone width (m)

Flight altitude: c. 1000 m.

📏 Spectral Range (nm)

Red, green, blue, Near Infra Red, and red-edge,
c. 400 - 1000 nm.

📏 Spatial Resolution (m)

GSD ranges from 2.5 cm to 1 m typically.

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Benefits

  • Often high resolution imagery captured using low cost Cessna-mounted system.

  • Efficient way to capture data at either small or large sites.

  • Ability to capture data in remote, unsafe or difficult to access locations, lowering safety risks.

  • Data acquisition can be done without disrupting operations on the ground.

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Limitations

  • Depending on capture mode can be expensive, for small one off capture, but if larger areas or several scattered targets then can be cost effective.

  • Detect radiation in a small number of broad wavelength bands limiting their application.

  • Limited by visibility constraints and poor weather conditions.

Selection of references

📚 McCarthy T, Fotheringham AS, O'Riain G. 2007. Compact Airborne Image Mapping System (CAIMS) The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences/, Padua, Italy.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-017-0880-x