Satellite Remote Sensing
Satellite imagery is ideal for mapping large areas quickly and providing regular updates. It is becoming increasingly cost effective with improving resolutions, greater spectral ranges and decreasing costs.
RPS understands that the increasing number of satellites orbiting the earth provides users with a bewildering range of choices. We can assess if satellite imagery is appropriate for a situation and then:
• Determine the best imagery for that situation, and
• Extract the information required to meet project requirements.
Extracting information from satellite imagery often involves image interpretation techniques as well as GIS integration of other spatial data, all of which RPS can handle in-house.
As a member of the Australian Government Geoscience and Defence Mapping Panel, RPS works in partnership with Geoscience Australia. We have applied photogrammetric skills to extract height data (DEM’s) from satellite imagery, creating an exciting new source of medium accuracy height data over any location in Australia.
RPS has a large and dedicated Remote Sensing and GIS team with proven experience in:
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Topographic mapping and revision including road networks |
Assessment and monitoring of vegetation types and their status |
RPS remote sensing methodologies draw heavily on our other skills in GIS, photogrammetry and cartography. We use the best combination of these technologies to meet project needs.
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| Kolontár, Hungary: Ajka alumina plant accident. Natural-colour satellite images of an area surrounding a chemical spill, collected before and after the accident. |
Contact
Tim York
Spatial Services
T. +61 7 3257 1011
tim.york@rpsgroup.com.au
