Spatial and radiometric fidelity of airborne multispectral imagery in the context of land-cover change analyses

Tarnavsky, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3403-0411, Stow, D., Coulter, L. and Hope, A. (2004) Spatial and radiometric fidelity of airborne multispectral imagery in the context of land-cover change analyses. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 41 (41). pp. 62-80. ISSN 1548-1603 doi: 10.2747/1548-1603.41.1.62

Abstract/Summary

The goal was to quantitatively estimate and compare the fidelity of images acquired with a digital imaging system (ADAR 5500) and generated through scanning of color infrared aerial photographs (SCIRAP) using image-based metrics. Images were collected nearly simultaneously in two repetitive flights to generate multi-temporal datasets. Spatial fidelity of ADAR was lower than that of SCIRAP images. Radiometric noise was higher for SCIRAP than for ADAR images, even though noise from misregistration effects was lower. These results suggest that with careful control of film scanning, the overall fidelity of SCIRAP imagery can be comparable to that of digital multispectral camera data. Therefore, SCIRAP images can likely be used in conjunction with digital metric camera imagery in long-term landcover change analyses.

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Divisions	No Reading authors. Back catalogue items Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	Bellweather Publishing
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