Overview of WageningenUR Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing Facility Juha Suomalainena, Niels Andersb,e, Jappe Frankec, Harm Bartholomeusa, Corjan Noletb, Marinka van Puijenbroekd, Peter Roosjena, Henk Kramerc, Saskia Keesstrab, Sander Mücherc, and Lammert Kooistraa
Our objectives
Our hardware
• Develop innovation in the field of remote sensing science by providing a platform for dedicated and high-quality experiments. • Support high quality Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) services by providing calibration facilities and disseminating processing procedures to the UAV user community. • Promote and test the use of UAVs in a broad range of application fields.
Currently the Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing Facility (UARSF) has two types of UAVs: Aerialtronics Altura AT8 octocopter for advanced small area studies and Mavinci Sirius fixed-wing UAV for mapping of larger areas. Our camera systems include: RGB cameras; a pushbroom Hyperspectral Mapping System (HYMSY); a 6-band Multispectral Mapping System (MUMSY); and a Rikola hyperspectral frame camera.
On left, Aerialtronics Altura AT8 with HYMSY camera system. On right, Mavinci Sirius
Agricultural applications in Netherlands, Rwanda, Germany, and Philippines
Forest and environmental studies in Indonesia, Guyana, and Netherlands Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing Facility Wageningen University and Research Centre P.O. Box 47 , 6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands www.wageningenur.nl/uarsf Contact:
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Reflectance anisotropy using multispectral images
Our campaigns and data Since 2012, the UARSF has taken part in numerous mapping campaigns under various topics depicted in the surrounding figures. Our expertise in data processing and analysis include 3D reconstruction using aerial images, georeferencing of pushbroom data, reflectance factor calibration, point cloud analysis, time series analysis, hyper- and multispectral analysis, and linking remote sensing observations to field data.
Land degradation and gully development in Spain March 2015
April 2015
Time series of coastal dune development in Netherlands
Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, The Netherlands b Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands c Alterra, The Netherlands d Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands e Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics - Computational Geo-Ecology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands a
Coral reef mapping in Bonaire August 2015
