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Corridor Mapping for Power Utility
Corridor Mapping - Roads and Highway
Photogrammetric Mapping
Earthworks Monitoring

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DSS Examples

The Trimble Digital Sensor System (DSS) is an “end-to-end” solution for producing highly accurate, high-resolution color and color-infrared digital orthophotos and orthomosaics. Certified by the USGS, this out-of-the-box solution is THE digital imaging answer for aerial survey and remote sensing applications requiring a rapid, cost-effective solution.

Benefits: •   Simple to use, yet highly accurate: Rugged system
   architecture is shock, vibe and pressure tested, perfect for
   airborne environment
•   Mapping grade camera: USGS certified, calibrated, stable
   over time
•   Direct georeferencing: AT (Aerial Triangulation) not required
•   Choice of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs)
•   Professional installation, crew training, and 2 years of ongoing
   customer support included with every system
•   Flexibility: Custom lenses and lens-mount configuration
   allows for easy removal and replacement, in flight, without
   recalibrating
•   Modular, expandable, customizable system. Can be flown with:
       o   Dual cameras for greater productivity
       o   Simultaneous CIR/NIR, or VIS/Hyperspectral
       o   Lidar
       o   Oblique camera
       o   Rapid ortho development
•   Pilot controlled operation: Built-in automated Flight
   Management System (FMS)
•   Quick data turnaround: End-to-end digital processing and
   direct data import into photogrammetric and GIS systems
Applications: Rapid Response Mapping
•    Rapid mobilization for emergencies and disaster management
•    Time-dependent image acquisition, change detection
•    Homeland security
        o   Situation assessment
        o   Border security

Tactical/Reconnaissance Mapping
•    Threat assessment and preparedness
•    Mission planning and operations preparation
•    Damage assessment
•    Personnel and equipment movement monitoring

Corridor Mapping
•    Linear mapping projects
•    Pipeline surveys
•    Power line corridors
•    Transportation routes

GIS
•    Orthophoto base maps
•    Rapid image acquisition
•    Urban and regional planning

Remote Sensing
•    Color-Infrared imaging
•    Object classification
•    Environmental assessment
•    Coastal zone monitoring
•    Forestry
    o   Species identification
    o   Timber value assessment
    o   Disease control

Agriculture
•    Recurrent image acquisition and analysis
•    Disease monitoring
Technology: •   Direct Georeferencing for faster production of quality
   orthorectified imagery without the need for expensive, time
   consuming AT (Aerial Triangulation)
•   POSPac™ MMS software, providing a complete Directly
   Georeferenced based mapping workflow capability within
   a single GUI — allowing users to launch commands and adjust
   parameters within a single software suite
•   Applanix POSTrack™ Integrated Flight Management and Direct
   Georeferencing System
•   Three Applanix AeroLens™ options: 40 mm, 60 mm,
   250 mm. User interchangeable without recalibrating. Built
   specifically for the airborne environment, by Carl Zeiss.
   AeroLens™ 250 mm enables the collection of rapid directly
   georeferenced digital aerial imagery at high altitudes
•   Focal Plane Shutter with shutter speeds up to 1/4000 sec
   enabling automatic exposure control, minimizing motion smear
•   TrueSpectrum Image Chain Analysis for color and color
   infra-red (CIR) imagery, producing seamless mosaics
•   Radiometric Calibration for optimum color balancing
•   Seamless integration with INPHO Image Processing Technology
   (supplied), giving users high processing speed and automation
   in orthophotos and mosaic production
•   RapidOrtho workflow option, generating orthophotos within seconds
    per image upon landing
•   LIDAR integration options, for both fixed wing and helicopter
   configuration, including turn-key hardware and software
   workflow kits for producing digital terrain and ortho-imagery
   products
•   Dual camera option, producing 4-band ortho-imagery in a
   single pass. The DSS 439 RapidOrtho DualCam adds a second
   DSS camera with a monochromatic CCD array specifically
   configured to capture Near Infra Red (NIR) imagery
Components: •    POSTrack touch screen: Allowing users to pre-plan flight paths and
     reduce flight times to fly missions
•    Camera: Mapping grade quality, USGS certified. Camera Sensor
     Head (CSH) has fully calibrated camera/digital back/exoskeleton
     assembly
•    Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
•    Azimuth Mount: Single axis, automatically controlled mount; 3-axis
     stabilized mount also available with built-in Inertial Measurement
     Unit
•    Flight Management System: Integrated XTRACK Flight Management
     System (FMS)
•    Data Storage Unit (DSU) Removable, pressurized and temperature -
     controlled ruggedized disk drive, 7000 image capacity per drive
     (2 supplied, 500 GByte each)
•    Camera Computer System (CCS) electronically guiding all assets
     for airborne environment
•    POS AV Direct Georeferencing System: Specifically designed for
     direct georeferencing of airborne sensor data
•    Power Distribution Unit (PDU): Controlling power to all systems and
     providing an LED display to the operator
•    INPHO image processing software: High processing speed and
     automation in orthophoto and mosaic production, DEM extraction,
     and seamlessly integrated with the DSS workflow
•    POSPac MMS software: Post-processing software bundle;includes
     mission planning software, Carrier Phase DGPS processing,
     Integrated Inertial/GPS processing, Photogrammetry tools for
     EO generation, IMU boresight calibration and quality control,
     DSS tools for mission management and image development

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