TEN YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT IN REMOTE SENSING AND THE ESEARCH IN THE CRC-AGIP LAB IN GCE

摘要

This paper briefly reviews the development of remote sensing technologies in the last ten years, including the development of optical, radar, and laser sensors and the trend of remote sensing software development. It also introduces some of the research activities and achievements of the Canada Research Chair Laboratory in Advanced Geomatics Image Processing (CRC-AGIP Lab) in the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering (GGE) at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). According to literature review and our research experience, we have concluded that the "bottle neck" of remote sensing is still the lack of software tools for effective information extraction from remote sensing data, especially after the rapid advancement of remote sensing sensor technologies in the last ten years and the increased demand for quickly updated, accurate geo-spatial information.