Sensor Correction of a 6-Band Multispectral Imaging Sensor for UAV Remote Sensing
Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent a quickly evolving technology, broadening the availability of remote sensing tools to small-scale research groups across a variety of scientific fields. Development of UAV platforms requires broad technical skills covering platform development, data post-processing, and image analysis. UAV development is constrained by a need to balance technological accessibility, flexibility in application and quality in image data. In this study, the quality of UAV imagery acquired by a miniature 6-band multispectral imaging sensor was improved through the application of practical image-based sensor correction techniques. Three major components of sensor correction were focused upon: noise reduction, sensor-based modification of incoming radiance, and lens distortion. Sensor noise was reduced through the use of dark offset imagery. Sensor modifications through the effects of filter transmission rates, the relative monochromatic efficiency of the sensor and the effects of vignetting were removed through a combination of spatially/spectrally dependent correction factors. Lens distortion was reduced through the implementation of the Brown–Conrady model. Data post-processing serves dual roles in data quality improvement, and the identification of platform limitations and sensor idiosyncrasies. The proposed corrections improve the quality of the raw multispectral imagery, facilitating subsequent quantitative image analysis.
Keywords
UAV; sensor correction; radiometric correction
Related pages
-
COMPARISON OF UNCALIBRATED RGBVI WITH SPECTROMETER-BASED NDVI DERIVED FROM UAV SENSING SYSTEMS ON FIELD SCALE
Author: Bareth, G. and Bolten, A. and Gnyp, M. L. and Reusch, S. and Jasper, J. -
DEM generation of intertidal zone in Korea using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Author: Kim, Bum-Jun and Lee, Yoon-Kyung and Ryu, Joo-Hyung and Lee, SeungKuk and Kim, Kye-Lim -
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT GROUND FILTERING ALGORITHMS FOR UAV-BASED POINT CLOUDS
Author: Serifoglu, C. and Gungor, O. and Yilmaz, V. -
Quantifying Fertilizer Application Response Variability with VHR Satellite NDVI Time Series in a Rainfed Smallholder Cropping System of Mali
Author: Blaes, Xavier and Chomé, Guillaume and Lambert, Marie-Julie and Traoré, Pierre Sibiry and Schut, Antonius G. T. and Defourny, Pierre -
Scene classification of high resolution remote sensing images using convolutional neural networks
Author: Cheng, Gong and Ma, Chengcheng and Zhou, Peicheng and Yao, Xiwen and Han, Junwei -
THE COMBINATION OF UAV SURVEY AND LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR MONITORING OF CROP VIGOR IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE
Author: Lukas, V. and Novák, J. and Neudert, L. and Svobodova, I. and Rodriguez-Moreno, F. and Edrees, M. and Kren, J. -
UAV-BASED AUTOMATIC TREE GROWTH MEASUREMENT FOR BIOMASS ESTIMATION
Author: Karpina, M. and Jarz̧abek-Rychard, M. and Tymków, P. and Borkowski, A. -
Use of a digital camera onboard a UAV to monitor spring phenology at individual tree level
Author: Berra, Elias F. and Gaulton, Rachel and Barr, Stuart -
A fast UAV image stitching method on GeoSOT
Author: Zhe, Yang and Weixin, Zhai and Dong, Chen and Wei, Zhang and Chengqi, Cheng -
A linear physically-based model for remote sensing of soil moisture using short wave infrared bands
Author: Sadeghi, Morteza and Jones, Scott B. and Philpot, William D. -
Accuracy verification of DSM obtained from UAV using commercial software
Author: Tokunaga, Mitsuharu -
ALIGNMENT OF POINT CLOUD DSMs FROM TLS AND UAV PLATFORMS
Author: Persad, R. A. and Armenakis, C. -
AUTOMATED DSM EXTRACTION FROM UAV IMAGES AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Author: Rhee, S. and Kim, T. -
Characteristics of Landsat 8 OLI-derived NDVI by comparison with multiple satellite sensors and in-situ observations
Author: Ke, Yinghai and Im, Jungho and Lee, Junghee and Gong, Huili and Ryu, Youngryel -
Conditional Random Fields for Multitemporal and Multiscale Classification of Optical Satellite Imagery
Author: Hoberg, Thorsten and Rottensteiner, Franz and Queiroz Feitosa, Raul and Heipke, Christian -
Development of an earth observation processing chain for crop bio-physical parameters at local scale
Author: Campos-Taberner, M. and Garcia-Haro, F. J. and Moreno, A. and Gilabert, M. A. and Martinez, B. and Sanchez-Ruiz, S. and Camps-Valls, G. -
Evaluating Multispectral Images and Vegetation Indices for Precision Farming Applications from UAV Images
Author: Candiago, Sebastian and Remondino, Fabio and De Giglio, Michaela and Dubbini, Marco and Gattelli, Mario -
Intercomparison of UAV, Aircraft and Satellite Remote Sensing Platforms for Precision Viticulture
Author: Matese, Alessandro and Toscano, Piero and Di Gennaro, Salvatore and Genesio, Lorenzo and Vaccari, Francesco and Primicerio, Jacopo and Belli, Claudio and Zaldei, Alessandro and Bianconi, Roberto and Gioli, Beniamino -
Multiclass Coarse Analysis for UAV Imagery
Author: Moranduzzo, Thomas and Melgani, Farid and Mekhalfi, Mohamed Lamine and Bazi, Yakoub and Alajlan, Naif -
Multiresolution image fusion using edge-preserving filters
Author: Upla, Kishor P. and Joshi, Sharad and Joshi, Manjunath V. and Gajjar, Prakash P. -
Multispectral image fusion based on joint sparse subspace recovery
Author: Liao, Bin and Liu, Wenzhao and Shen, Jing -
Object-Based Unsupervised Classification of VHR Panchromatic Satellite Images by Combining the HDP and IBP on Multiple Scenes
Author: Shu, Yang and Tang, Hong and Li, Jing and Mao, Ting and He, Shi and Gong, Adu and Chen, Yunhao and Du, Hongyue -
On the use of temporal-spectral descriptors for crop mapping, monitoring and crop practices characterization
Author: Holecz, Francesco and Gatti, Luca and Collivignarelli, Francesco and Barbieri, Massimo -
Pansharpening of Multispectral Images Based on Nonlocal Parameter Optimization
Author: Garzelli, Andrea -
Rice yield estimation using multispectral data from UAV: A preliminary experiment in northern Italy
Author: Stroppiana, Daniela and Migliazzi, Mauro and Chiarabini, Valter and Crema, Alberto and Musanti, Mauro and Franchino, Carlo and Villa, Paolo -
Towards a satellite based system for monitoring agricultural water use: A case study for Saudi Arabia
Author: McCabe, Matthew F and Houborg, Rasmus and Rosas, Jorge and Ershadi, Ali and Anderson, Martha and Hain, Christopher -
A Lightweight Hyperspectral Mapping System and Photogrammetric Processing Chain for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Author: Suomalainen, Juha and Anders, Niels and Iqbal, Shahzad and Roerink, Gerbert and Franke, Jappe and Wenting, Philip and Hünniger, Dirk and Bartholomeus, Harm and Becker, Rolf and Kooistra, Lammert -
A multi-band watershed segmentation method for individual tree crown delineation from high resolution multispectral aerial image
Author: Jian Yang and Yuhong He and Caspersen, John -
A progressive morphological filter for point cloud extracted from UAV images
Author: Qiuling Wang and Lixin Wu and Zhihua Xu and Hong Tang and Ran Wang and Fashuai Li -
An Object-Based Hierarchical Method for Change Detection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images
Author: Qin, Rongjun -
Chosen problems with acquiring multispectral imagery data using the miniMCA camera
Author: Rafal Dabrowski and Agata Orych -
Classification of small agricultural fields using combined Landsat-8 and RapidEye imagery: case study of northern Serbia
Author: Crnojevic, Vladimir and Lugonja, Predrag and Brkljac, Branko and Brunet, Borislav -
Combined Spectral and Spatial Modeling of Corn Yield Based on Aerial Images and Crop Surface Models Acquired with an Unmanned Aircraft System
Author: Geipel, Jakob and Link, Johanna and Claupein, Wilhelm -
Comparison of Eight Techniques for Reconstructing Multi-Satellite Sensor Time-Series NDVI Data Sets in the Heihe River Basin, China
Author: Geng, Liying and Ma, Mingguo and Wang, Xufeng and Yu, Wenping and Jia, Shuzhen and Wang, Haibo -
Continuity of Reflectance Data between Landsat-7 ETM+ and Landsat-8 OLI, for Both Top-of-Atmosphere and Surface Reflectance: A Study in the Australian Landscape
Author: Flood, Neil -
Cultivated land information extraction from high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle imagery data
Author: Ma, Lei and Cheng, Liang and Han, Wenquan and Zhong, Lishan and Li, Manchun -
Derivation and approximation of soil isoline equations in the red–near-infrared reflectance subspace
Author: Taniguchi, Kenta and Obata, Kenta and Yoshioka, Hiroki -
Direct Georeferencing of Ultrahigh-Resolution UAV
Author: Turner, Darren and Lucieer, Arko and Wallace, Luke -
Estimation of aerosol optical depth over Dehradun (India) using simple model for atmospheric radiative transfer in multiple scattering approximation
Author: Mehta, M. -
Feature Learning Based Approach for Weed Classification Using High Resolution Aerial Images from a Digital Camera Mounted on a UAV
Author: Hung, Calvin and Xu, Zhe and Sukkarieh, Salah -
Inter Comparison of Atmospheric Correction Models - SACRS2, FLAASH and 6SV Using Resourcesat-2 AWiFS Data
Author: Pathak, V. N. and Pandya, M. R. and Shah, D. B. and Trivedi, H. J. and Patel, K. D. and Sridhar, V. N. and Singh, R. P. -
Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research
Author: D.P. Roy and M.A. Wulder and T.R. Loveland and Woodcock, C.E. and R.G. Allen and M.C. Anderson and D. Helder and J.R. Irons and D.M. Johnson and R. Kennedy and T.A. Scambos and C.B. Schaaf and J.R. Schott and Y. Sheng and E.F. Vermote and A.S. Belward and -
Low cost infrared and near infrared sensors for UAVs
Author: Aden, S. T. and Bialas, J. P. and Champion, Z. and Levin, E. and McCarty, J. L. -
Monitoring structural damages in big industrial plants with UAV images
Author: Moranduzzo, Thomas and Melgani, Farid -
Spatial and Spectral Image Fusion Using Sparse Matrix Factorization
Author: Huang, Bo and Song, Huihui and Cui, Hengbin and Peng, Jigen and Xu, Zongben -
Spatial Co-Registration of Ultra-High Resolution Visible, Multispectral and Thermal Images Acquired with a Micro-UAV over Antarctic Moss Beds
Author: Turner, Darren and Lucieer, Arko and Malenovský, Zbynĕk and King, Diana H. and Robinson, Sharon A. -
Supervised Classification of Multisensor and Multiresolution Remote Sensing Images With a Hierarchical Copula-Based Approach
Author: Voisin, Aurelie and Krylov, Vladimir A. and Moser, Gabriele and Serpico, Sebastiano B. and Zerubia, Josiane -
UAV Flight Experiments Applied to the Remote Sensing of Vegetated Areas
Author: Salamí, Esther and Barrado, Cristina and Pastor, Enric -
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to Quantify Spatial Gap Patterns in Forests
Author: Getzin, Stephan and Nuske, Robert S. and Wiegand, Kerstin -
Vicarious Radiometric Calibration of a Multispectral Camera on Board an Unmanned Aerial System
Author: Del Pozo, Susana and Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Pablo and Hernández-López, David and Felipe-García, Beatriz -
An Entropy-Based Multispectral Image Classification Algorithm
Author: Long, Di and Singh, Vijay P. -
An Improved Image Fusion Approach Based on Enhanced Spatial and Temporal the Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model
Author: Fu, Dongjie and Chen, Baozhang and Wang, Juan and Zhu, Xiaolin and Hilker, Thomas -
Best tradeoff for remote sensing image fusion based on three-dimensional variation and à trous wavelet
Author: Chen, Shaohui and Su, Hongbo and Tian, Jing and Zhan, Chesheng -
Can vegetation productivity be derived from greenness in a semi-arid environment? Evidence from ground-based measurements
Author: Mbow, Cheikh and Fensholt, Rasmus and Rasmussen, Kjeld and Diop, Doudou -
Detecting flooded areas with machine learning techniques: case study of the Selška Sora
Author: Lamovec, Peter and Veljanovski, Tatjana and Mikoš, Matjaž and Oštir, Krištof -
ENHANCEMENTS IN UAV FLIGHT CONTROL AND SENSOR ORIENTATION
Author: Bäumker, M. and Przybilla, H.-J. and Zurhorst, A. -
Enhancing a Simple MODIS Cloud Mask Algorithm for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Author: Wilson, Michael J. and Oreopoulos, Lazaros -
Experimental Evaluation of Sentinel-2 Spectral Response Functions for NDVI Time-Series Continuity
Author: D'Odorico, Petra and Gonsamo, Alemu and Damm, Alexander and Schaepman, Michael E. -
Historic land cover change in the agricultural Midwest using an object-based approach for classification of high-resolution imagery
Author: Porter, Sarah and Linderman, Marc -
Identification of agricultural crops in early stages using remote sensing images
Author: Valero, Silvia and Ceccato, Pietro and Baethgen, Walter E. and Chanussot, Jocelyn -
MICRO UAV BASED GEOREFERENCED ORTHOPHOTO GENERATION IN VIS + NIR FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE
Author: Bachmann, F. and Herbst, R. and Gebbers, R. and Hafner, V. V. -
Soil moisture inversion and validation based on new remote sensing platform
Author: Du, Chen and Qin, Qiming and Liu, MingChao and Feng, Haixia and Dong, Heng and Wang, Nan -
Spectral Response Function Comparability Among 21 Satellite Sensors for Vegetation Monitoring
Author: Gonsamo, Alemu and Chen, Jing M. -
The Processing of Image Data Collected by Light UAV Systems for GIS Data Capture and Updating
Author: Yastikli, N. and Bagci, I. and Beser, C. -
Use of high-resolution multispectral imagery from an unmanned aerial vehicle in precision agriculture
Author: Al-Arab, Manal and Torres-Rua, Alfonso and Ticlavilca, Andres and Jensen, Austin and McKee, Mac -
Validity of soil isoline equation for a system of canopy and soil layers
Author: Taniguchi, Kenta and Obata, Kenta and Matsuoka, Masayuki and Yoshioka, Hiroki -
Very high resolution crop surface models (CSMs) from UAV-based stereo images for rice growth monitoring In Northeast China
Author: Bendig, J. and Willkomm, M. and Tilly, N. and Gnyp, M. L. and Bennertz, S. and Qiang, C. and Miao, Y. and Lenz-Wiedemann, V. I. S. and Bareth, G. -
Web service-based vegetation condition monitoring system - VegScape
Author: Yang, Zhengwei and Yu, Genong and Di, Liping and Zhang, Bei and Han, Weiguo and Mueller, Rick -
A Conceptual Model of Surface Reflectance Estimation for Satellite Remote Sensing Images Using in situ Reference Data
Author: Chen, Hsien-Wei and Cheng, Ke-Sheng -
Analysis and selection of pan-sharpening assessment measures
Author: Palubinskas, Gintautas and Palubinskas, Gintautas and Reinartz, Peter -
Aspects of atmospheric and topographic correction of high spatial resolution imagery
Author: Schlapfer, Daniel and Richter, Rudolf and Kellenberger, Tobias -
Atmospheric compensation for WorldView-2 satellite and in-water component retrieval
Author: Concha, Javier A. and Gerace, Aaron D. -
ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION COMPARISON OF SPOT-5 IMAGE BASED ON MODEL FLAASH AND MODEL QUAC
Author: Guo, Y. and ZENG, F. -
Atmospheric effects on vegetation indices of TM and ETM+ images from a tropical region using the 6S model
Author: Homem Antunes, Mauro Antonio and Gleriani, Jose Marinaldo and Debiasi, Paula -
Estimation of leaf water content from far infrared (2.5–14 µm) spectra using continuous wavelet analysis
Author: Ullah, Saleem and Skidmore, Andrew K. and Naeem, Mohammad and Schlerf, Martin -
Integration of multi-resolution data for crop LAI estimation based on continuous wavelet
Author: Dong, Yingying and Wang, Jihua and Li, Cunjun and Yang, Guijun and Xu, Xingang and Zhao, Jinling and Huang, Wenjiang -
Integrative use of multitemporal rapideye and TerraSAR-X data for agricultural monitoring
Author: Bach, Heike and Friese, Malin and Spannraft, Katharina and Migdall, Silke and Dotzler, Sandra and Hank, Tobias and Frank, Toni and Mauser, Wolfram -
Inter-Sensor Comparison between THEOS and Landsat 5 TM Data in a Study of Two Crops Related to Biofuel in Thailand
Author: Phongaksorn, Naruemon and Tripathi, Nitin K. and Kumar, Sivanappan and Soni, Peeyush -
Landsat-7 ETM+: 12 Years On-Orbit Reflective-Band Radiometric Performance
Author: Markham, Brian L. and Haque, Md. Obaidul and Barsi, Julia A. and Micijevic, Esad and Helder, Dennis L. and Thome, Kurtis J. and Aaron, David and Czapla-Myers, Jeffrey S. -
Mapping paddy rice agriculture in a highly fragmented area using a geographic information system object-based post classification process
Author: Lin, Meng-Lung and Lin, Meng-Lung and Huang, Chao-Hsiung and Chu, Tzu-How -
Radiometric and Geometric Analysis of Hyperspectral Imagery Acquired from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Author: Hruska, Ryan and Mitchell, Jessica and Anderson, Matthew and Glenn, Nancy F. -
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles and wireless sensor network in agricultural applications
Author: Costa, Fausto G. and Ueyama, Jo and Braun, Torsten and Pessin, Gustavo and Osorio, Fernando S. and Vargas, Patricia A. -
Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Remote Sensing and Scientific Research: Classification and Considerations of Use
Author: Watts, Adam C. and Ambrosia, Vincent G. and Hinkley, Everett A. -
Absolute Radiometric Calibration of the RapidEye Multispectral Imager Using the Reflectance-based Vicarious Calibration Method
Author: Naughton, Denis and Brunn, Andreas and Czapla-Myers, Jeff and Douglass, Scott and Thiele, Michael and Weichelt, Horst and Oxfort, Michael -
An IHS-Based Fusion for Color Distortion Reduction and Vegetation Enhancement in IKONOS Imagery
Author: Chikr El-Mezouar, Miloud and Taleb, Nasreddine and Kpalma, Kidiyo and Ronsin, Joseph -
Desertification in the Sahel: Towards better accounting for ecosystem dynamics in the interpretation of remote sensing images
Author: Hein, L. and de Ridder, N. and Hiernaux, P. and Leemans, R. and de Wit, A. and Schaepman, M. -
Endmember variability in Spectral Mixture Analysis: A review
Author: Somers, Ben and Asner, Gregory P. and Tits, Laurent and Coppin, Pol -
Multispectral Remote Sensing from Unmanned Aircraft: Image Processing Workflows and Applications for Rangeland Environments
Author: Laliberte, Andrea S. and Goforth, Mark A. and Steele, Caitriana M. and Rango, Albert -
Panchromatic and Multispectral Image Fusion Based on Maximization of Both Spectral and Spatial Similarities
Author: Golibagh Mahyari, Arash and Yazdi, Mehran -
Current Status and Future Directions of Precision Aerial Application for Site-Specific Crop Management in the USA
Author: Lan, Yubin and Thomson, Steven J. and Huang, Yanbo and Hoffmann, W. Clint and Zhang, Huihui - Acquisition protocols
- Atmospheric correction
- Multispectral and panchromatic images
- Platforms
- UAV technology