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Title:	Procedures for Planning Remote Sensing Missions
Authors:	Link, Lewis E. (Lewis Edward), 1946- O'Neil, Edward F. Concrete Laboratory (U.S.) Mobility and Environmental Systems Laboratory (U.S.)
Keywords:	Remote sensing Image processing
Publisher:	U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station
Series/Report no.:	Information Exchange Bulletin (Concrete Laboratory (U.S.));no. v.O-76-2 Information Exchange Bulletin (Mobility and Environmental Systems Laboratory (U.S.));no. v.O-76-2
Abstract:	Remote sensing began in 1840 when Gaspard Felix Tournachan took a photograph of an area near Paris from a balloon. Since then aerial photography and recently a variety of more exotic sensors have been used to acquire a staggering amount of terrain data for application to engineering and environmental problems. In spite of the broad application of remote sensing techniques, the methods employed by the user community to plan and execute remote sensing missions remain empirical and at times mainly subjective. As our need increases for more detailed and specific data over larger and larger areas, remote sensing will be more and more in demand as a data-acquisition tool. The increased detail in the data needed will require added sophistication in the methods used to successfully employ remote-sensing to acquire these data. Remote sensing began in 1840 when Gaspard Felix Tournachan took a photograph of an area near Paris from a balloon. Since then aerial photography and recently a variety of more exotic sensors have been used to acquire a staggering amount of terrain data for application to engineering and environmental problems. In spite of the broad application of remote sensing techniques, the methods employed by the user community to plan and execute remote sensing missions remain empirical and at times mainly subjective. As our need increases for more detailed and specific data over larger and larger areas, remote sensing will be more and more in demand as a data-acquisition tool. The increased detail in the data needed will require added sophistication in the methods used to successfully employ remote sensing to acquire these data. Under sponsorship of the Military Construction Directorate, Office of the Chief of Engineers, the Waterways Experiment Station (WES) has developed mission planning procedures that provide for the first time rigorous and quantitative means to examine the effects of the major variables that influence the information content of remote sensor imagery. As such, they make possible the objective selection of a sensor system and mission profile (sensor altitude, time of day, atmospheric conditions, etc.) to enhance the success of a data-acquisition program.
Description:	Information Exchange Bulletin
Gov't Doc #:	Vol O-76-2
Rights:	Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/11681/29603
Size:	8 pages / 15.59Mb
Types of Materials:	PDF/A
Appears in Collections:	Information Exchange Bulletin