Terrestrial research, including Arctic environmental research,
will be enabled by the Instrument's capability to acquire, manage, and analyze
super-resolution aerial imagery and sensor data.
The
team of Drs. Steven Oberbauer and Nathan Healey
[http://www2.fiu.edu/~oberbaue/AON-ITEX.html] at FIU will utilize the
Instrument for their research on extreme environments such as
the Arctic ecosystem of Alaska.
Research
is carried out to monitor the impact of changing tundra vegetation in order to
scale measurements to the regional and sub-regional level.
Remote
sensing and imagery collection is often carried out by means of robotic trams and
other robotic sensor systems suspended over the canopy, and aerial kite
photography (AKP) [Goswami, S.; Boike,
J.; Aber, J.S.; Myers-Smith, I.H.].
The
Instrument's drifting or tethered lighter-than-air balloon system provides
significant advantages. The ability to visualize instantaneously the area over
which imagery and data is being collected, as well as to dynamically adjust the
collection parameters, with live transmission of the geo-referenced data to the
Instrument's server farm will transform data collection capabilities in extreme
environments.
References
Cited
[GOS11] S.
Goswami, Monitoring ecosystem dynamics in an Arctic
tundra ecosystem using hyperspectral reflectance and
a robotic tram system. 2011.
[BJY03] J.
Boike and K. Yoshikawa. "Mapping
of periglacial geomorphology using kite/balloon
aerial photography." Permafrost and periglacial
processes 14.1 (2003): 81-85.
[SMR10] J.S. Aber, I. Marzolff,
and J.B. Ries. Small-Format Aerial
Photography: Principles, Techniques and Applications. Elsevier,
2010.
[SH+12] I.
H. Myers-Smith, et al. "Tall Shrub Monitoring Protocol for Arctic Canada
and Alaska." (2012).
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