Assessing radiometric corrections for UAS multi-spectral imagery in horticultural environments

Title
Assessing radiometric corrections for UAS multi-spectral imagery in horticultural environments
Publication Date
2018
Author(s)
Tu, Yu-Hsuan
Phinn, Stuart
Johansen, Kasper
Robson, Andrew
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5762-8980
Email: arobson7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:arobson7
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8517703
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/60058
Abstract

UAS-based multi-spectral imagery is becoming ubiquitous for monitoring and managing various horticultural crops. To accurately measure and monitor their structure and condition and estimate yields, appropriately corrected data must be used to drive the necessary algorithms. There are several popular radiometric correction methods commonly used for UAS-based data correction. However, their relative and absolute accuracies are not known. This study used three flight datasets, including along- and across-tree-row flight patterns in an avocado orchard. Four correction methods were applied to produce at-surface reflectance image mosaics for each flight pattern as well as the grid pattern and the results were compared to assess the reflectance consistency. Results show that no method provided consistently correct at-surface reflectance for the same features. A BRDF correction workflow was being developed to address these limitations. Preliminary application of the BRDF correction shows that it significantly improves the brightness consistency of features across different images.

Link
Citation
IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, p. 5453-5456
ISBN
9781538671504
Start page
5453
End page
5456

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