Guia docente 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría Aeronáutica e do Espazo

Máster Universitario en Operaciones e Ingeniería de Sistemas Aéreos no Tripulados

Cargas útiles baseadas en sensores pasivos

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Sensors for UAVs	Motivation. Applications. Specific aspects of sensing using UAVs. Technologies for sensors in UAVs. Sensor basic components. Spectral regions of interest. UAV platforms for sensing. Integration of sensors in UAVs: gimbal systems. Image sensing in UAVs
Radiation: measurement and detection	Propagation of electromagnetic radiation. Light rays and wavefronts. Power flux. Radiometric magnitudes and units. Radiation sources: emission and reflection. Kirchoff's law. Lambertian sources. Atmospheric transmission. Photon detectors: CCD and CMOS sensors. Thermal detectors. Sources of noise.
Optical systems	Centered system. Conjugate points. Perfect system. Abbe and Herschel conditions. Paraxial optics. Cardinal elements. Optical system coupling. Lenses. Mirrors. Aberrations. Aperture and field stops. Resolving power of optical systems.
Sensors of image	Optical systems for cameras. Transversal and angular field. Basic design of lenses: teleobjetive and wide-angular lenses. Image plane irradiancie. Horizontal and vertical view fields. Instantaneous field of view. Image systems for UAVs. Signal to noise ratio. Noise equivalente power, radiance and irradiancie. Noise equivalente differential reflectance. Spatial resolution: PSF and MTF.
Thermografic image	Thermal detectors. Emittance and atmospheric transmission. Thermal contrast. Noise equivalent temperature difference. Thermal resolution. Thermographic systems for UAVs. Applications.
Multispectral image	Multispectral and Hyperspectral systems. Spectral image. Image at the focal plane. Spectral systems for UAVs. Band filters. Prism separation. Interferometers. Fourier transform spectrometers. Diffraction grating spectrometers.
8. Analysis of data and image processing	Metadata. Digital image. Motion video. Image definition. Object recognition and tracking. Image quality scale (NIIRS). Probability discrimination. Atmospheric correction. Image processing. Photogrammetry.