Imagery for Analysis

SHOWN ARE VARIOUS TYPES OF IMAGES SAMPLING A BROAD RANGE USED FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Alaska Beaufort Sea Ice on
Aerial Photo Taken on-Board
NASA’s Convair airplane with me on board, responsible for flight path planning
1975

Alaska Beaufort Sea Ice,
Synthetic Aperture Radar Images from NASA Convair with me on board. Individually flown image strips needed to get assembled for the analysis of ice motion
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Apollo 17 Lunar Sounder ALSE
Radar Image of Lunar Crater. Shown is a single strip. Three strips were collected on board the command module while astronauts explored the lunar surface.
NASA-1972

Magellan’s Venus stereo image pair from synthetic aperture radar imaging sensor for 3D shape reconstruction by both a stereo as well a shape from shading approach
1992

Aerial synthetic aperture radar at 30 cm resolution over a few buildings, flown in 4 directions for detailed 3D modeling of buildings. Note flight directions.

Synthetic aperture radar image of a transmission tower next to a water body, suited to develop an understanding of radar imaging geometry and radar mirror images

Stereo pair of aerial synthetic aperture radar SAR images at 30 cm pixels for 3D urban modeling

Oblique aerial photography of a Graz scene for urban internet mapping

Micro-Aerial Vehicles MAVs for 3D urban mapping: Image block and coarse point cloud | quadcopter with camera, CPU and storage

Archeology: images for 3D photorealistic modeling –Example Sagalassos | Turkey

Aerial photos with 3 cm pixels for detailed urban modeling

Street side photography of facades for 3D urban modeling and internet mapping

UltraCam aerial photo of glacier & rocks. Back is overview. Foreground is enhanced radiometry –Note rock detail in the shadow area to illustrate high density range.

CT Scan of liver with tumor as input to 3D tumor shape and location modeling

Endoscopic test image of a US coin for research on 3D models from endoscopic stereo image pairs

Landsat Image of Graz with dark River Mur and bright freeway (1983)

HCMM Thermal Satellite Image of Salzburg-Province (1980)

LiDAR Point Clouds of Graz Street Canyon from Moving Vehicle (2007)