Airborne remote sensing at PML and other things''

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Airborne remote sensing at PMLand other things..
Mike Grant PML birthday Oct 2005
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NERC Airborne Research and Survey Facility

• NERC facility providing free airborne data for
  scientific use
• Aircraft (NERC-owned Dornier Do228-101) based
  near Gloucester
• Processing facility (ARSF-DAN) now located at PML
• Begun late 2007
• Delivery times reduced from 1 year to lt1 month
• Many improvements in quality, many fixes to
  software
• Key people at PML
• Steve Groom, Ben Taylor, Mark Warren, Jane
  Netting, (Peter Land)

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Instruments Carried

• SPECIM Eagle/Hawk hyperspectral sensors 400
  2400 nm
• Airborne Thematic Mapper thermal IR capability
• Optech ALTM LIDAR, being replaced by a new Leica
  ALS50-II
• Digital camera (39MP camera with Leica system)
• Atmospheric instruments (Aircraft Integrated
  Meteorological Measurement System, AIMMS-20)
• Older instruments (on request), such as a CASI-2

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Instrument Band Set
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From..
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To..
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LIDAR

• New Leica LIDAR operating from 2009
• 8W class 4 infrared (1067nm) laser altimeter
• Full waveform digitisation upgrade in early 2010
• High accuracy vertical structure retrieval

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Newer projects

• HYQUA-PRO
• Adding quality information to airborne data
• Measuring propagation of errors through the
  system
• DevCoCast
• Supplying remote-sensed data to Africa and other
  developing countries
• PML acting as Marine Hub, collecting and
  forwarding ocean related data

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Other things I get up to..

• Metadata
• NERC Data Grid project (NERC)
• Data visualisation
• InterRisk project (EU FP7)
• Satellite processing chains
• NEODAAS project (NERC)
• RSG systems management
• Annoying DTG project (PML core?)
• General PML computing-related advice
• WCO, Oceans 2025, etc (NERC)
• Drinking coffee
• Coffee-tree deplantation project (self-funded)

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Any Questions? (and pretty picture)