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Hyperspectral & Thermal Mapping Applications

Whether interested in conducting your own hyperspectral and/or thermal surveys or having us collect the data for you, this page provides you with just a few ideas of the range of uses that our high-performance airborne imagers are suitable for.

Applications for our sensors are as numerous and varied as the groups and disciplines that employ them. Choosing which optical imager or imagers to use for a given project relies on understanding the general reflective (or emissive, in the case of thermal) characteristics of the surface to be imaged and each spectral region’s different strengths towards differentiating between target types.

Benefits of ITRES

• Their global experience
• Knowledgable and reliable staff
• World leading imaging systems in accuracy, sensitivity
and performance
• Itres offers end-to-end services and ongoing support
• Expansive processing and analysis expertise

Example Hyperspectral & Thermal Applications

AGRICULTURE

ENVIRONMENT

• Bare soil, moisture content, growth stage
• Chlorophyll/nitrogen content, leaf brown pigment, LAI
• Disease, stress mapping
• Crop species delineation
• Change detection, invasive species
• Wildlife surveys
• Environmental assessments
       

WATER QUALITY

LIDAR, IFSAR

• Chlorophyll, total suspended solids
• Pollution presence, identity, & distribution
• Thermal mixing
• Image orthorectification
• Data visualization/modeling
• Hydrology mapping
       

FORESTRY

DEFENCE & TARGET DETECTION

• Yield inventory
• Stem counts/density/canopy closure
• Disease management/mapping
• Surface and buried landmine detection
• Unexploded ordnance (UXO)
       

WETLANDS MAPPING

GEOLOGY, MINING, OIL & GAS EXPLORATION

• Benthic cover/submerged aquatic vegetation
• Near-shore vegetation mapping, algae
• Land/water interface
• Pipeline corridor mapping
• Buried pipeline delineation/pipeline leakage
• Mineral composition
• Stratigraphy, structural geology
       

THERMAL ANOMALIES

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

• Building/infrastructure heat loss mapping
• Burning coal seam mapping
• Emergency response
• Vulcanology – lava domes, flows, geothermal fields
• Snow and ice studies

• Oil slick mapping
• Forest fire thermal mapping
• Sea/land search and rescue