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Lars Eklundh

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Challenges and best practices for deriving temperature data from an uncalibrated UAV thermal infrared camera

Författare

  • Julia Kelly
  • Natascha Kljun
  • Per Ola Olsson
  • Laura Mihai
  • Bengt Liljeblad
  • Per Weslien
  • Leif Klemedtsson
  • Lars Eklundh

Summary, in English

Miniaturized thermal infrared (TIR) cameras that measure surface temperature are increasingly available for use with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, deriving accurate temperature data from these cameras is non-trivialsince they are highly sensitive to changes in their internal temperature and low-cost models are often not radiometrically calibrated. We present the results of laboratory and field experiments that tested the extent of the temperature-dependency of a non-radiometric FLIR Vue Pro 640. We found that a simple empirical line calibration using at least three ground calibration points was sufficient to convert camera digital numbers to temperature values for images captured during UAV flight. Although the camera performed well under stable laboratory conditions (accuracy ×0.5 °C), the accuracy declined to ×5 °C under the changing ambient conditions experienced during UAV flight. The poor performance resulted from the non-linear relationship between camera output and sensor temperature, which was affected by wind and temperature-drift during flight. The camera's automated non-uniformity correction (NUC) could not sufficiently correct for these effects. Prominent vignetting was also visible in images captured under both stable and changing ambient conditions. The inconsistencies in camera output over time and across the sensor will affect camera applications based on relative temperature differences as well as user-generated radiometric calibration. Based on our findings, we present a set of best practices for UAV TIR camera sampling to minimize the impacts of the temperature dependency of these systems

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system

Publiceringsår

2019-03-01

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Remote Sensing

Volym

11

Issue

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

MDPI AG

Ämne

  • Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)
  • Physical Geography
  • Environmental Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Calibration
  • FLIR
  • NUC
  • Radiometric
  • Remote sensing
  • Temperature
  • Thermal infrared
  • UAS
  • UAV
  • Vignetting

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • GREEN GAP: GREENhouse GAs flux uPscaling - improved understanding of key ecosystem processes using remote sensing and ground-based measurements
  • CarboScale : Scaling carbon flux from towers to the northern landscape

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2072-4292