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Airborne Multispectral Digital Camera Applications
The Airborne Multispectral Digital Camera (AMDC) is designed for users who need more than traditional aerial photography. It provides coincident images of blue, green, red, near-IR, and panchromatic bands and rapid post-processing to GIS-ready imagery. Robust information extraction techniques allow the system to be tailored to meet the application needs of the customer.
 

Agriculture
  • Crop health and type
  • Crop sustainability
  • Irrigation planning
  • Storm damage assessment
Images in the infrared easily distinguish crop types
 

Hydrology

  • Water quality monitoring
  • Vegetation mapping
  • Wetland change
  • Flood mapping
  • Shallow bathymetric mapping
  • Shoreline erosion potential
Detection of circulation patterns near a Lake St. Clair beach (Detroit, MI) help predict increased chloroform counts in the area
 
   
Individual wetlands species can be extracted from multispectral images.
 

 

Forestry

  • Forest health
  • Forest Inventory
  • Clear cut monitoring
  • Damage assessment

 
Forest features can be readily interpreted from color images in Stinchfield Woods, MI.

Land Use

  • Land use determination
  • Corridor analysis
  • Impervious surface mapping
  • Brownfield's planning
  • Catastrophe mapping
  • Insurance claims
 
Residential, commercial, industrial infrastructure are easily mapped with the right combination of spectral and spatial resolution.
   

The lightweight and compact AMDC installs in a standard camera mount available on many light aircraft. The system includes:

  • the camera head with lens and shutter, filter wheel and attitude measurement system
  • system control and recording chassis
  • remote operator interface
  • GPS antenna and mechanical assembly

The AMDC records high levels terrain detail digitally, eliminating costly delays for post-flight film processing or printing. The simultaneous collection of global positioning data, inertial navigation information and frames  approximately 2000 x 2000 pixels, allows timely, cost effective integration of AMDC imagery into a Geographic Information System. Panchromatic, false color, and natural color can be recorded at resolutions up to 1/2 meter in a single aircraft pass.

Forest Surveys Using AMDC

 
The Airborne Multispectral Digital Camera (AMDC) provide unique high resolution forest survey capabilities. Six specific channels of data in 0.4-1.0 micron range produce registered data sets that permit rapid classification of:

· Forest Type
· Forest Condition
· Forest Inventory
· Clear-Cut Monitoring
· Forest Fire Assessment
· Harvest Planning and Regeneration

Who Needs an AMDC Forest Survey

· Commercial Forestry Companies
· State and federal Forest Managers
· Resource and Habitat Managers
· Urban Planners (corridor assessment, impact analysis)
· Environmental Groups

An end-to-end system for forest surveys. This system includes the airborn sensor, processing equipment, algorithms, training and long term support, and is available for sale, lease or individual study to support your particular forest analysis requirements.