"...curiosity and joy of adventure.
If you can preserve these two wonderful afflictions through your life, you will never be able to stop exploring the atmosphere." Dr. Joachim Kuettner
UCAR Distinguished Chair for Atmospheric Science and International Research born 21 Sep 1909 - and still exploring....
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Lidar Survey of three Beaches near Adelaide (flown on 21 Dec 2009)
other sensors flown during this survey were: .....................a hyper-spectral scanner (450-900nm - ~1m resolution) .................... a tri-spectral scanner (2048 pixels across-track - ~0.7m resolution) .................... a hi-res aerial camera (0.1m resolution or better)
examples from these sensors will be added to this item as they become available
Middle Beach again, but this time as a composite of lidar data and ndvi (normalised differential vegetation index) ..............................the shaing is elevation from the lidar, the colour is ndvi - ............................. the greener the colour, the more healthy vegetation is there
........................"SENSING BEYOND THE VISIBLE"
"- Mapping ecological assets using airborne remote sensing -"
........................Presenter: Jorg M. Hacker, Director/Chief Scientist of ARA - 37 slides
...................." Land Use Change Suppresses Precipitation " ....................................Presenter: Prof. Tom Lyons, Murdoch University, Perth - 29 slides
The presentation is based on the paper of the same title by Junkermann, Hacker, Lyons and Nair in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Vol 9, pg 6531-6539, 2009, available by clicking here,
All images and data below (aerial photos, lidar, tri- and hyperspectral scanner, other)
are in the Public Domain and freely available from ARA - Airborne Research Australia.
Near full resolution data are available through downloadable Google Earth kmz-files as described below.
To access the highest resolution versions of the images and data, contact
info@airborneresearch.com.au
Aerial photographs from a test flight
on 22 Apr 2009 over Adelaide (from Parafield Airport along Main North Rd to the CBD, then to Adelaide Airport and Outer Harbour. Then around Middle Beach and the sea and sandbanks around Outer Harbour. From there along the beach to Grange and back to Outer Harbour. Then via the salt works back to Parafield Airport)
Flight track
To download/open a Google Earth kmz-file containing
flight track info and thumbnails of the images (rotated to "North up") CLICK HERE (9Mb)
2228x1671 pixel versions of all images (jpg-quality 50%)
are accessible through the GE kmz-file above
Original resolution of the images is 4064x2704 images
Contact info@airborneresearch.org.au for access
Lidar data and data from the tri- and hyper-spectral scanners are also available
Aerial photographs from a flight
on 17 Apr 2009 over Melbourne,
including the CBD and some of the bushfire-affected areas
(From Moorabbin Airport to Preston, then via the Docklands across the CBD. Then to Surrey Hills, Blackburn and Montrose. Then along three of the burnt valleys east and west of the Melba Hwy. Then many legs over Maroondah Reservoir, then many legs over burnt areas around Wallaby Creek. Then over Maroondah North and Badgers Creek back to Moorabbin)
Flight track
To download/open a Google Earth kmz-file containing
flight track info and thumbnails of the images (rotated to "North up") CLICK HERE (15Mb)
2228x1671 pixel versions of all images (jpg-quality 50)
are accessible through the GE kmz-file above
Original resolution of the images is 4064x2704 images
Contact info@airborneresearch.org.au for access
Lidar data and data from the tri- and hyper-spectral scanners are also available
Melbourne CBD as seen by LiDAR (click on image for larger version)
Flight guidance and scanner control screen in the cockpit of the ECO-Dimona
Aerial photographs from a test flight
on 21 Jan 2009 over the Adelaide Hills (From Parafield Airport to near Gumeracha and Birdwood, then to Kersbrook and to substation near Little Para Reservoir)
Flight track
To download/open a Google Earth kmz-file containing
flight track info and thumbnails of the images (rotated to "North up") CLICK HERE (20Mb)
2228x1671 pixel versions of all images (jpg-quality 50)
are accessible through the GE kmz-file above
Original resolution of the images is 4064x2704 images
Contact info@airborneresearch.org.au for access
Lidar data and data from the tri-spectral scanner are also available
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