Countermine Lidar UAV-based System (CLUBS)-Year 2 (extended)

Abstract

The long-term goal of this work is to examine the utility of commercial bathymetric lidar technology solely, and in combination with commercial passive imaging spectrometers, for measuring environmental information for military applications in the littoral zone. These findings will indicate how commercial systems might evolve to achieve improved performance for rapid environmental assessment and for deployment in unmanned aerial vehicles. Objectives: 1. Develop capability to produce lidar-only classification of the seafloor. 2. Develop capability to estimate underwater horizontal visibility from bathymetric lidar data. 3. Identify the best strategy for integrating a few spectral channels of passive data with lidar data for seafloor and water column characterization. 4. Assemble combined active and passive datasets over a range of environments and environmental conditions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA519054

Entities

People

  • Grady H. Tuell

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Classification
  • Data Fusion
  • Environment
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Great Lakes
  • Image Processing
  • Images
  • Lake Huron
  • Lakes
  • Military Applications
  • Organizational Structure
  • Shallow Water
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy