Tools for Hyperspectral Exploitation of Multi-Angular Spectra (THEMAS): May 2012 and June 2013 Experiments (CD-ROM)

Abstract : ELECTRONIC FILE CHARACTERISTICS: 1 file; Adobe Acrobat (.PDF). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 CD-ROM; 4 3/4 in.; 678 MB. ABSTRACT: This report documents data collected during the THEMAS remote sensing experiments. THEMAS was an Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Coalition Warfare Program remote sensing campaign conducted jointly by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia in collaboration with a number of other institutions. THEMAS goals were to further develop and enhance methods for exploitation of hyperspectral imagery to support amphibious planning. To that end, the THEMAS team: (1) obtained high spatial resolution imagery from various phase angles and (2) collected information on beach sediments, atmospheric properties, and oceanographic properties. This allowed NRL to compare and merge in situ data with imagery to develop imagery-derived trafficability maps and shallow water bathymetric charts. The goal for THEMAS experiments involves the study of coastal environments using multi-angular spectral data, specifically to support the extraction of coastal characterization parameters from a variety of imaging geometries, as well as to take advantage of repeat-pass imaging at multiple geometries.