B. Analysis of multitemporal UAS data and its applications

Topic 5: Advanced Analytics

Analysis of multitemporal UAS data and its applications

mapping plant growth, soil erosion and other phenomena, temporal data framework, python

Outline

• monitoring landscape changes using UAS
• introduction to temporal data framework
• basic analysis of 3D time series
• applications: monitoring plant growth, coastal erosion, soil erosion, flooding

Lecture

• Lecture slides

Supplemental materials

• Spatio-temporal data handling and visualization in GRASS GIS (FOSS4G 2014 workshop)

• GIS-based Analysis of Coastal Lidar Time-Series, Springer brief available for free through NCSU libraries

• Past Lecture recordings:

  • Introduction
  • Analysis

Assignment & Homework

• Prepare report on mapping plant growth, viewsheds and water flow patterns using ultrahigh resolution DEMs.