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Radiometric and Atmospheric Corrections of Multispectral μMCA Camera for UAV Spectroscopy

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2019

Abstract

This study presents a complex empirical image-based radiometric calibration method for a Tetracam μMCA multispectral frame camera. The workflow is based on a laboratory investigation of the camera's radiometric properties combined with vicarious atmospheric correction using an empirical line.

The effect of the correction is demonstrated on out-of-laboratory field campaign data. The dark signal noise behaviour was investigated based on the exposure time and ambient temperature.

The vignette effect coupled with nonuniform quantum efficiency was studied with respect to changing exposure times and illuminations to simulate field campaign conditions.