| dc.contributor.author | Bridgelall, Raj | |
| dc.description.abstract | The ongoing proliferation and diversification of remote sensing platforms offers greater flexibility to select from a range of hyperspectral imagers as payloads. The emergence of low-cost unmanned aircraft systems (drones) and their launch flexibility presents an opportunity to maximize spectral resolution while scaling both daily spatial coverage and spatial resolution simultaneously by operating synchronized swarms. This article presents a model to compare the performance of hyperspectral-imaging platforms in terms of their spatial coverage and spatial resolution envelope. The authors develop a data acquisition framework and use the model to compare the achievable performance among existing airborne and spaceborne hyperspectral imaging vehicles and drone swarms. The results show that, subject to cost and operational limitations, a platform implemented with drone swarms has the potential to provide greater spatial resolution for the same daily ground coverage compared to existing airborne platforms. | en_US |
| dc.rights | In copyright. Permission to make this version available has been granted by the author and publisher. | |
| dc.title | Performance of Hyperspectral Imaging with Drone Swarms | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.type | Preprint | en_US |
| dc.description | Raj Bridgelall is the program director for the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) Center for Surface Mobility Applications & Real-time Simulation environments (SMARTSeSM). | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-08T16:09:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-08T16:09:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28238 | |
| dc.subject | Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Adaptive resolution. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Swarm sensing. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Daily ground coverage. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Transportation. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Autonomous vehicles. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Spatial systems. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-3743-6652 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bridgelall, R., Rafert, J. B., Tolliver, D. "Performance of Hyperspectral Imaging with Drone Swarms," Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118775876, May 30, 2018. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.ugpti.org/about/staff/viewbio.php?id=79 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.contributor.organization | Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute | |
| ndsu.college | College of Business | |
| ndsu.department | Transportation and Logistics | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0361198118775876 | |
