Improving Image Quality of a Color Infrared Digital Camera mounted on a Small UAV Platform: An Iterative Active Learning Experience

摘要

Students from both the engineering and aviation program at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore worked in a team setting with the faculty members to advance research goals of ongoing precision agriculture efforts at the university while gaining significant experiential knowledge in the active area of remote sensing using small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In the summer of 2014, the team began flying a small multi-copter, the 3DRobotics X8, with a Near-Infrared (NIR) camera, the Tetracam ADC Lite. Tetracam images obtained from flights aboard the X8 resulted in light and dark "banding".