SPIE - Education Radiometry and its UAV Applications SC1073

As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continue to grow in importance in military and commercial applications, the need to understand radiometry with respect to many applications increases. This course presents the basic quantities and units of radiometry and photometry, and the propagation laws and approximations enabling flux transfer calculations. It introduces sources, blackbody radiation, optical material properties, detectors, and radiometric calibration. Applications are presented along with worked examples from the beginning of the course, and students have several opportunities to work problems on their own throughout the session.