Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Conference Proceedings of SPIE

Abstract

Carefully collected airborne imagery demonstrates the ability to see water surface features as well as shallow bottom features such as submerged vegetation and manmade targets. Traditional photogrammetric imagery and airborne digital imagery both suffer from a loss in image clarity due to a number of factors, including capillary and small gravity waves, the water column or in-situ constituents. The use of submerged as well as surface man-made calibration targets deployed during airborne or in-situ subsurface image acquisitions forms a preliminary basis for correcting imagery in order to improve subsurface and surface features and their detection. Methods presented as well as imagery at 490 nm, 532 nm and 698-700 nm clearly show subsurface features in shallow waters. The techniques utilized include the use of large frame cameras with photogrammetric films in combination of special filters, such as a Wratten # 70, in order to provide narrower spectral features near the vegetative “red edge” to be used to improve interpretation of hyperspectral push broom imagery. Combined imagery from several sensors and platforms, including autonomous underwater vehicles, form the basis of data fusion for surface and subsurface automatic feature extraction. Data presented from a new hyperspectral imaging system demonstrates the utility of sub-meter hyperspectral imagery for use in subsurface feature detection.

DOI

10.1117/12.870728

Publication Date

2010

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